TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas

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Perhaps it was a short week, but there is still a lot of news, including another Zoo Remember, update on Stelantis -Aazon Partnership, some startup financing deals.

One element of observation: This week, I wrote about it Karma Technology And the lawsuit to violate patents against Uber. This is not a patent situation, and the intellectual property attorneys with whom they spoke say it will be a difficult issue for Uber.

essence? Karma, which was formed in 2007 by the series, the series and the founder of SosV Ventures, Sean Osoulvan, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Uber, claiming that the company violated five patents that are linked to the identical (or packets) contestant system with a capacity of cars. In other words, sharing ride.

Intellectual property lawyer, Larry Asheri, presented a quote, which explains why this is a complex and difficult condition.

“The important thing is to understand here is that Karma not only confirmed five patents. They had a very advanced strategy for patent purchases they had been working on for 18 years.”

The five Carma Patents are part of a family of 30 designers, all of which are connected and connected to the original deposit date. This is important because each of the five patents that have been confirmed contain multiple patent claims, which define the legal limits of the invention. These individual allegations – not only patents as a whole – are what Karma confirmed against Uber.

This means that Uber will have Uber to treat and defend him against every confirmed claim, which makes litigation more complicated and difficult to defeat, as Ashri pointed out.

Let’s get into the rest of the news.

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Some small birds have been starting for months now around a new startup for independent vehicle technology that was calmly connected for a year. Interesting block on this startup – which is called Foundation He is the one behind him: Boris SodmanWho led And emoSelf -driving truck program and previously participated in its founding and led the famous consumer robotics company Ante.

San Francisco is still in surreptitious condition, but my approval tells me that it has collected great adventure boxes. Bedrock Robotics a group of self -driving that restore updates to construction equipment and other heavy machines, according to a file for American patents and brands.

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Deals!

Al -Wirepiece Space She got an investment of $ 50 million from Northbound Grouman as part of the D Round series. This investment will increase the production of an average medium launch vehicle that has been developed at startup, now known as Eclipse.

PalletThe Fremont Logistics Services Programs, California, raised $ 27 million in a series of chain B, led by General Catalyst. Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital and Bessmer Venture Partners also participated.

VoltarasIt is an emerging company in London, which will allow the virtual connective tissues that will allow EVS to provide its batteries to support the network, and closed a series A 11.1 million dollars led by Union Square Ventures, with the participation of Edenred, Exor, Long Journey Ventures and WeX.

Data technology methodThe fleet management company founded by the veterans of Lucid Motors and Wolt, 2.6 million euros (2.95 million dollars) in pre -seeds financing led by Pale Blue Dot, with the participation of 10x institutional and Greens projects.

Promise readings and other tales

Independent vehicles

RiverThe four -wheeled stairs robot, which is described by Marco Pelionic, CEO and Founder, Marco Pelionic, is a dog on ice ski car Trucks directly to the front doors of customers as part of a pilot program in Austin, Texas. Both companies believe that this little pilot is an important step towards solving a unique segment of the independent to the end of the party.

Tusimple (Now Createi) Send a set of sensitive data-effectively a plan for an American independent vehicle system-to a company owned by Beijing after adhering to the United States government that it will stop transportation under the National Security Agreement. The revelation, which was reported by the Wall Street Journal for the first time, raised many “unanimous” responses from many readers and sources inside the industry.

Zoo The second volunteer software was called in one month, following a collision between a robot and an electronic cycling contestant in San Francisco on May 8. The accident was significantly, to a large extent of what happened after the un occupied zoo vehicle that operates at low speed after it moved it in production.

According to Zoox, the electronic phase fell on the floor directly next to the car and “Robotaxi began to move and stop after the turn of the turn, but he did not contact more contact with electronic periods.”

In other Zoox news, the company announced that it was “Robotaxi’s official partner of Resorts World Las Vegas”. As part of the deal, there will be a dedicated and medium Robotaxi site in Resorts World Las Vegas.

Electric cars, shipping and batteries

the Tesla Cybertruck It is a difficult time. Dozens of Tesla Cybletructs are accumulated in a parking lot at the Detroit Shopping Center. While Tesla is now allowing Cyberrtruck owners to trade in their cars for the first time since they have reached the market, they will face great success. Cargurus recently showed a decrease rate of 45 %.

During, Timing Sales in Europe and the United Kingdom decreased by half of nearly half, according to the data issued by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association.

the Volkswagen The fraud scandal in 2015 erupted through the automotive sector, and the company (then the other) pushed it to move from diesel, hybrid and electric cars. Now, four former Volkswagen executives have received prison sentences for their role.

Car technology

Amazon It no longer works with Stelantis To create a program inside the car for auto cars. The partnership, which was first announced in January 2022, was part of the Stelantis plan to generate $ 22.5 billion annually of software. Stelantis Techcrunch was told that it would be a pivotal system of Android.