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Outrider autonomous yard truck
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Pilot useUnited StatesFully autonomousSAE level 4

Outrider · port and yard vehicle

Outrider autonomous yard truck

Battery-electric Class 8 yard trucks (latest on an Orange EV base) fitted with lidar, NVIDIA compute and a robot arm that hooks up trailer brake and power lines, so trailers can be moved around distribution yards with nobody aboard.

Price
—subscription service
Autonomy
Level 4No driver needed in its area
Driverless
TestingSince 2025
Fleet
24Reported; details below
Speed
—Not published
Range
—Not published

Why it matters

A pilot use vehicle from Outrider.

Real-world use

24 next-generation trucks bought for customer pilots (July 2022); driverless commissioning with select enterprise customers began in the second half of 2025.

Timeline

First shown
2020-02
Released
Not yet
Company launch out of stealth

Maker

OutriderCompany

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status
Driverless tests only
Where it runs
US distribution yards (Georgia-Pacific and other customers)
Driverless since
2025
Fleet
24 autonomy-kit trucks purchased by Outrider and customers (Outrider, July 2022)
Rides, miles or loads
more than 12,000 autonomous trailer moves by July 2022 (Outrider)
SAE level
Level 4: drives itself with no one at the controls inside its approved area

Public attention

How much public attention Outrider autonomous yard truck gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet
  • 1 reported deployment

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.

From the maker

Outrider autonomous yard truck is the only vehicle from Outrider in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not publishedsubscription service
How to get one
No official buying page found

Where it works

1 reported deployment.

Map
  • Deployed

    Georgia-Pacific · Georgia-Pacific Chicagoland distribution center · Chicago · since 2021

    Georgia-Pacific used Outrider's autonomous yard trucks for more than 1,000 trailer moves in daily operations at its Chicagoland distribution center. American Journal of Transportation

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose

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Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

FleetOwner Autonomous yard trucking startup Outrider launches with $53M backing Robotics 24/7 Outrider releases next-generation kit for scaling distribution yard automation Robotics 24/7 Outrider launches enterprise-class support services for driverless yard operations

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