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Ribbon Cut in Ann Arbor as Torc Expands Engineering Footprint
Ann Arbor, MI – August 7, 2025 – Under a bright summer sky, Torc celebrated the official grand opening of its newest technology hub in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The milestone event brought together Torc’rs, their families, community leaders, and one of Torc’s striking...
AV 3.0: Torc’s AI Blueprint
Torc has set our sights on one goal: to create a scalable product capable of delivering the immense value of autonomy to our freight partners. The system, hardware, and software must all be built for safety, adaptability, and cost-efficiency; and work seamlessly on...
Torc’s First Responder Program Recent Highlights
Torc’s First Responder Team recently conducted comprehensive training sessions for more than 150 first responders representing 33 distinct agencies along the Texas I-35 corridor. This initiative is a critical part of Torc’s commitment to preparing the first responder...
Torc Announces New Engineering Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Further Fuel Autonomous Vehicle Innovation
Strategic Location Taps into Regional Automotive and Tech Talent, Builds on Recent Dallas Forth-Worth Expansion Blacksburg, VA – June 24, 2025 – Torc, a pioneer in commercializing self-driving class 8 trucks, today announced the establishment of a new engineering...
Torc Joins the Stanford Center for AI Safety to Conduct Joint Research on AI Safety for Level 4 Autonomous Trucking
The collaboration aims to advance autonomous trucking safety through cutting-edge AI research Blacksburg, VA – June 17, 2025 – Torc, a pioneer in commercializing self-driving class 8 trucks, today announced its membership with the Stanford Center for AI Safety, which...
Securing the Future: Meet Michael Maass, Director of Product Cybersecurity
At Torc, safeguarding safety-critical systems from evolving cybersecurity threats isn’t just a priority—it’s a coremission. At the helm of this mission is Michael Maass, the Director of Product Cybersecurity and Principal ProductCybersecurity Architect, whose career...
Advancing Safe Machine Learning: “The Community Now Owns This”
At the recent SAE World Congress, Torc took the stage to share something big: a new safety approach to using machine learning (ML) in high-stakes areas like self-driving trucks. Paul Schmitt, Torc’s Senior Manager for Autonomy Systems, presented a paper called “The ML...
Torc Officially Opens First Autonomous Hub in Fort Worth, Celebrates Commercialization Era
The weather forecast for the week of May 11th in Fort Worth was clear and hot, unlike the week before. The week of May 4th, the skies were darkened by massive storms, dropping almost two inches of rain in a day. On the 11th, the high temperature was 75, and on the...
Lisa Brown Joins Torc as Senior Director of Product Engineering, Safety & Security
BLACKSBURG, Va – May 6, 2025 – Torc Robotics, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG and a pioneer in commercializing self-driving vehicle technology, today announced the appointment of Lisa Brown as Senior Director of Product Engineering, Safety &...
Torc Names Steve Kenner as Chief Safety Officer
Kenner brings a wealth of experience leading safety at multiple automotive and tech companies as Torc nears market entry and commercialization BLACKSBURG, Va – April 17, 2025 – Torc, a pioneer in commercializing self-driving class 8 trucks, today announced the...
Daimler Truck’s Autonomous-Ready Fifth Generation Freightliner Cascadia Hits Texas Roads With Torc
This news is released jointly with Daimler Truck. The original can be found at www.daimlertruck.com. Daimler Truck delivers latest iteration of autonomous-ready truck platform based on the new Fifth Generation Freightliner Cascadia with redundant safety features to...
Texas Road Tour 2025: Legislators, First Responders Learn About Autonomous Trucking
On the road again! Our Torc autonomous truck traveled between Austin and Ft. Worth for the Texas Road Tour 2025 Willie Nelson famously sings about being on the road again, and Torcrs (with their love of all things transportation) made that our theme song during the...
Daimler Truck CFO Eva Scherer Joins Torc Board
Torc is pleased to announce that Eva Scherer, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Daimler Truck Holding AG, has joined Torc's Board of Directors as of February 24th, 2025. She joins the current board members Karin Rådström, CEO of Daimler Truck, John O’Leary, President...
GTC 2025 Recap: ‘The Competition Is Shocked’ By Progress, Collaboration With NVIDIA, Flex
Sometimes, conferences are so big, they become a city within a city… with a very specific agenda. During the week of March 17, 2025, Over 39,000 people descended on San Jose to see all industry giant NVIDIA had to offer at their annual GPU Technology Conference, or...