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In the first interview with Paul Newman, co-founder of Oxa, since he became chief executive of the self driving technology firm, he asked me to share this point. It is about his company's first large order as it moves from pilots to long term partnerships. Oxa is focused on the $31 billion global industrial mobility market, bringing AVs to airports, ports and distribution sites where goods are moved (by lots of people). “It will probably start through an export opportunity that we have. We built [the technology] here. We are going to be operating it in a different country. "I really would like your readers to be going, ‘That just sounds mad. Surely in all of our ports, all of our airports and all of our yards, we should be getting on this programme.’” https://lnkd.in/e7D4u7pb [open link, with a cap] #entrepreneurs

Heading to TOC Europe 2026? 🚢 From 19 - 21 May, the Oxa team, including Richard Hurlock and Thomas Bamber, will be at the event to share more details about our latest activities, including our work at the Port of Tyne. Come and meet us to find out how we’re putting autonomous vehicles to work, and the role our self-driving technology has in the future of port and terminal operations. Hope to see you in Hamburg! #TOCEurope | #CSCLive

One of the UK's leading AI ventures, Oxa, backed by NVIDIA and Google, is pioneering what the world now calls Physical AI. With origins in the University of Oxford's robotics and AI labs, Paul Newman and Oxa are building Industrial Mobile Autonomy. When these systems scale, industrial manufacturing will be smoother, the flow of global trade through ports faster, our airports safer, critical minerals will be mined from less damaging locations, and farmers might be able to make a decent living. As Paul says: "The worst thing you should do is have many vehicles driving around. There was this era when everyone was raising funding and companies in the States were spending billions on fleets of vehicles to get the data. That’s a terrible idea. What you want to do is build the technology that means you have to drive the fewest number of miles." This is the AI we need to build - robust, understanding cause and effect in the world around us, and integrating with our most complex systems. Congratulations to Paul and all the team at Oxa, and to their partners at the National Wealth Fund, NVIDIA, GV (Google Ventures), IP Group plc and many others. Image: “Google-backed Oxa drives alternative approach to autonomous vehicles", Global Corporate Venturing.

It was a privilege to speak to Paul about his journey from academic research to founding a shining star of U.K. autonomous tech Oxa find it here or in your favourite podcast app, search etech49.

Operators in ports and manufacturing have no patience for technology that looks impressive in a lab but disrupts their logistics chains. That’s why we’re learning, together with our customers, how to put autonomous vehicles to work where industry needs them most. Working with North East Automotive Alliance (NEAA), alongside the Port of Tyne and a consortium of leading industry and academic partners, we have now successfully delivered the P‑CAL (Port‑Connected and Automated Logistics) project. Designed to push the boundaries of autonomous logistics, the project moves autonomous technology from proof‑of‑concept trials into a complex, safety‑critical, real‑world operational setting. Graeme Hardie, Operations Director at the Port of Tyne, said: “Delivering autonomous logistics in a live port environment has been a major step forward for the sector. P‑CAL has shown what’s possible when innovation is applied to real operational challenges, improving safety, efficiency and sustainability.”

That’s a wrap on my slot at this year’s Tech.eu Summit London! It was a privilege to take the stage this morning to discuss the inevitability of industrial autonomy and how Oxa is putting autonomous vehicles to work to: ✅ Reduce total cost of fleet ownership by 60-80% ✅ Keep fleets moving and maximise vehicle utilisation ✅ Develop resilient, predictable operations ✅ Keep workers safe and protect sites and assets ✅ Integrate autonomy with existing systems Industrial autonomy is inevitable and it was great to share our vision for how we are enabling it today. Thank you to the Tech.eu team for a fantastic event so far! #techeu #techeusummit

Industry demands are evolving beyond the capabilities of stationary machines and rigid pre-programmed automation. That’s why we’re putting autonomous vehicles to work and helping to: - Keep fleets moving and maximise vehicle utilisation - Develop resilient, predictable operations - Keep workers safe and protect sites and assets  - Integrate autonomy with existing systems Rebecca Marsden, SVP of Commercial and Strategic Partnerships at Oxa, will cover all this and more in her presentation at the Tech.eu 2026 Summit. Accelerating the Inevitable: Scaling Industrial Mobile Autonomy We’ll see you there! 📍 London 📅 Tuesday 21st April, 2026 ⏰ 10.20

Want to know more about how we use data to to train, validate, and assure our software? Sign up for #NVIDIAGTC (it's free!) and you can watch the online session from Dr Horia Porav, our Foundry team lead. Before we deploy in a new environment, we need to prove coverage and diversity. It means showing that our self-driving software has been trained and tested against the full range of expected and unexpected situations it might encounter. As part of our Foundry toolchain, NVIDIA Cosmos helps us transform both real-world data (real-to-real) and data from simulation (sim-to-real). In the presentation we'll showcase results, both qualitative and quantitative, from training on this transformed data. 🚢 Explore edge cases where sim-to-real is the only way to acquire data in restricted-access environments, such as ports and warehouses. 🤖 Find out how we combine world models with auto labelling to speed up R&D 🔎 Learn about the benefits of multi-modal search 🚀 Understand how this unlocks and enables workflow integration 👁️ See real examples (with quantitative metrics) Sign up using the link in the comments👇