Humble Robotics raises $51 million for a self-driving electric truck with no cab at all

Humble Robotics said on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, that it raised a $51 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures, bringing its total funding to $75 million less than a year after its founding, to build cabless autonomous electric haulers for regional freight.

Most self-driving truck companies bolt autonomy onto trucks built for people. Humble is betting the cab itself is dead weight, and it's starting with short, boring regional hauls where that bet is easiest to prove. It's early: no commercial freight yet, and a prototype that still has a temporary cab. A Hauler without a seat leaves no one to blame but the software.

Humble Robotics raised a $51 million Series A. A Series A is an early venture round, the money a young company raises to build the product and show that it works. Obvious Ventures led. Existing investors Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners participated. Total funding is $75 million, less than a year after founding. The company declined to disclose its valuation. The round, the investors, and the total are Humble's. The line that it would not share a valuation is Business Insider's.

Humble designs the vehicle and the autonomy software together, as one system. The Humble Hauler is a cabless, fully autonomous electric Class 8 vehicle for dock-to-dock freight between ports, rail terminals, warehouses, and distribution centers. Class 8 is the heaviest category of truck on U.S. roads. Cabless means there is no driver's compartment. Dock-to-dock means the trip runs from one loading dock to another, not only the highway miles in the middle. Those lines are Humble's.

The Hauler targets regional routes under 250 miles. Humble says those routes make up 87% of U.S. truck tonnage. Tonnage is the weight of freight moved, not the number of trips. That 87% is the company's figure.

The money funds customer pilots, testing and validation, early manufacturing, and a broader family of vehicles on Humble's modular platform. Modular, here, means the same base is meant to support more than one kind of vehicle. Those lines are Humble's.

Founder and chief executive Eyal Cohen previously worked on Apple's self-driving car project, on Uber's autonomous driving effort, and at the self-driving truck startup Waabi. That career line is Business Insider's.

Cohen told Business Insider that customer pilots start in the first quarter of 2027, using conventional trucks to collect data, and that he expects commercial operations to begin in the third quarter of 2027. Humble holds a California permit to test with a safety driver. Testing of the prototype still uses a temporary cab so a person can supervise. Those lines are Business Insider's. The Hauler is not moving freight for paying customers yet.

Humble's website lists a 200-mile maximum range and a speed of 55 mph for the Hauler. Those figures are on the company's site.

Cohen told Business Insider: "We really wanted to redesign the truck for a fully autonomous future, which is why it's electric and doesn't have a cab." He also said: "Our trucks can do a 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. shift that nobody wants to do." Those quotations are his.

The picture is the Humble Hauler, a black cabless electric truck with amber lights, carrying a silver shipping container on a highway at sunset with a city skyline behind it. The credit is Humble Robotics.

In plain terms, Humble raised $51 million to build an electric freight truck that has no cab, and the software that drives it, as one machine. The routes it wants are the short regional ones. Data-collection pilots in conventional trucks are planned for early 2027, and Cohen says commercial runs come later that year. The prototype being tested still has a temporary cab, and a safety driver is part of the California test permit.