Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather than rule-based systems.

Humble, a San Francisco-based autonomous freight startup, has emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round and a fully electric, cabless freight vehicle called the Humble Hauler.

The round was led by Eclipse, the Palo Alto-based venture firm that has made physical AI its central investment thesis, with participation from Energy Impact Partners.

The company was founded by Eyal Cohen, whose two-decade career in autonomous vehicles spans Apple, Uber ATG, Waabi, and Spark AI, a startup he co-founded that was acquired by John Deere in 2023.

The Hauler is designed around a deliberate absence: there is no driver’s cab. Cohen told Fortune, which reported the ...