Building the autonomous terminal.
We are not raising today. We are speaking with investors who know industrial autonomy ahead of a future round, and we are happy to share where the platform stands.
Essential infrastructure, largely unautomated.
Throughput targets keep climbing while the pool of people willing to work a yard keeps shrinking.
A terminal runs around the clock in punishing conditions: sea fog, blowing dust, vibration, mixed traffic of people and heavy machinery, and cargo worth far more than the vehicles moving it. The work is exactly what autonomy should take on first, and it has been served last.
Most autonomy effort has gone to public roads, where the environment is open-ended and the regulatory path is long. A terminal is the opposite: a mapped, private, geofenced site with a single operator, repeatable routes and a measurable cost per container move. The operational design domain is narrow enough to be solved and valuable enough to be worth solving.
We build the vehicle and the fleet layer together, on automotive-grade compute, so the same perception and planning stack runs from bench to wharf. That is the part of the problem we think is hardest to copy.
What we have done so far.
The company is early by design. These are the milestones behind the platform as it stands today.
- September 2026
Geometry fixed
The vehicle is a design of record rather than a drawing: deck height, sensor positions and the container interface are settled enough to quote and fabricate against.
- August 2026
Silicon question closed
Commercial approval on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX means the compute platform, its toolchain and its functional-safety story are decided, on the bench and in the vehicle.
- May 2026
Architecture specified end to end
Every stage from sensor synchronisation to the independent safety channel is defined, so engineering hires arrive to a specification rather than a blank page.
- May 2026
Company formed
General Axis, Inc. incorporated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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