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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
Kalanick signaled years ago that Atoms was about solving physical-world automation. Robotaxis are the obvious destination, and the timing suggests serious progress on hardware, software, or both. For investors: this is a test of whether Atoms can compete in a market that's already attracted sustained capital from Waymo, Tesla, and Cruise. For builders: watch what stack Atoms chooses, because it'll show how far vertically-integrated teams can move without foundation model dependency.