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A car stopped on a pedestrian footpath at night after turning off the road
InsightsJune 19, 2026

$1.83 Trillion Lost to Traffic Crashes — One Bad Turn Shows Exactly Why

Not a confusing intersection. Not a missing sign. The road was right there. The sidewalk was right there. And the car turned onto the sidewalk anyway.

Nighttime highway with emergency lights in the distance, illustrating how one road mistake expands to affect many others
InsightsJune 18, 2026

A Mistake on a Road Does Not Stay With the Person Who Makes It

Two vehicles collided. Then 20 more showed up — police, tow trucks, emergency crews, and hundreds of other drivers caught in the fallout.

Handcrafted wooden tribute to the Wright Flyer built by Omar Mukhtar, founder of Outonomous
TeamJune 18, 2026

You find a way. You bend what others said would break

You find a way with people who imagine with a team like Shuguang Zhang, Jason Corso and team Outonomous

NASA Apollo mission patches at Johnson Space Center
TeamJune 17, 2026

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center

We visited NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center recently

A car turning left onto a sidewalk at dusk, illustrating the boundary between road and pedestrian space
InsightsJune 16, 2026

A driver turned left onto a sidewalk

Not because a sign confused them. Not because the road was unclear. The sidewalk was right there, visible, obvious, unmistakably not a road.

Omar Mukhtar, founder of Outonomous
InsightsJune 14, 2026

At Outonomous, We don't chase trends. We never did.

We find the problems that will always be there, and we start building with fellow team members

Aerial view of connected vehicles on layered highway overpasses, representing networked autonomy and road safety
InsightsJune 14, 2026

Every 24 seconds, someone dies on a road somewhere in the world.

That's not a headline designed to shock you. That's just the math, 1.19 million lives lost every single year.

Cat sitting in the middle of a Bay Area street near a stopped car
InsightsJune 12, 2026

This cat has no idea it just made every autonomous vehicle smarter.

Spotted on a Bay Area street this week, sitting in the middle of the road, calm as ever

Panelists on stage at the Modernist Venture Club event discussing robotics and physical AI
InsightsJune 12, 2026

What if the best robot training ground was... a battle royale game?

At a Modernist Venture Club event, KRAFTON's CEO and Ludo Robotics' CTO discussed using PUBG's real-time simulation to train robots for the real world.

Attendees at the Physical AI Shift Summit at Frontier Tower in San Francisco
InsightsJune 12, 2026

Physical AI is not a trend.

Founders and engineers tackling the hardest physical bottlenecks in robotics — at the Physical AI Shift Summit at Frontier Tower in the heart of San Francisco.

Switzerland vs Qatar 2026 FIFA World Cup match graphic over a packed stadium
InsightsJune 12, 2026

Qatar Football Association VS Schweizerischer Fussballverband (SFV)

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is happening right in our backyard

Selfie at the Stanford x MIT AI Hardware Stack Summit by SFPlayground at Mosaic, Embarcadero
InsightsJune 12, 2026

I stepped into an art gallery and walked out thinking about data centers

That was the vibe at Stanford University x Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summit - The AI Hardware Stack