Otto (company)
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| Industry | Automotive, Technology |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Anthony Levandowski, Lior Ron, Claire Delaunay, Don Burnette |
| Headquarters | 737 Harrison, San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Products | Self-driving kit for long-haul trucks |
| Parent | Uber |
| Website | ot |
Otto, legal name Ottomotto LLC is an American self-driving technology company established in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski. The San Francisco-based team, which has 90 employees as of August 2016, retrofits semi trucks with radars, cameras and laser sensors to make them capable of driving themselves. In August 2016 Otto was acquired by the transportation network company Uber. Co-founder Lior Ron has stated that Otto will have self-driving fleets of trucks on the road by early 2017.
Otto was established in January 2016, and is currently one of a new generation of automobile firms venturing into making self-driving vehicles. The company was founded by Anthony Levandowski, who worked on the Google self-driving car project, and Lior Ron, who was a product lead on the Google Maps team. Claire Delaunay, who led the software development and Don Burnette, from Google’s self-driving car team are also co-founders. The team as of August 2016 comprised 90 employees, with engineers from Google, Apple Inc., Tesla, Logitech, Stanford University and elsewhere. The firm’s base is a garage in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco.
In August 2016 it was reported that Otto had been acquired by Uber, at an estimated cost of $680 million. Otto will stay independent from Uber, according to Lior Ron. Anthony Levandowski will continue heading up Otto, as well as being in charge of Uber's self-driving division.
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