Eyal Cohen ran autonomy at Apple, Uber ATG and Waabi. His new company Humble came out of stealth on April 21 with $24M from Eclipse and a Class 8 freight truck that has no cab. The photo went viral on X within hours — less Peterbilt, more low-slung sled with a shipping container bolted on top. Most outlets have already started calling it “the iPhone moment for freight.”
The hardware
The Humble Hauler is a fully electric, cab-less autonomous truck built for 40- and 53-foot intermodal containers, with a quoted 200-mile range. True dock-to-dock — it pulls into a yard, docks, unloads and leaves with no human anywhere on the platform. Killing the cab drops curb weight, frees payload, and lets Humble bake camera, lidar and radar into the chassis for full 360° coverage with no blind spots. First running prototype in under six months.
Why a VLA stack matters
Aurora, Kodiak and Plus all built rule-based driving stacks. Humble drives with a vision-language-action model — the same architecture humanoid teams like Figure and 1X are riding. The bet: a VLA can reason about the weird highway scenarios you can’t pre-write rules for. U.S. truck freight is a $906B market. This is the cleanest reframing of it since Aurora rolled out.
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