CategoryTrucks
Overview
ISEE AI is a Cambridge, MA-based MIT spin-out (2017) developing AI-powered autonomous yard trucks for logistics. Raised $70M total including $40M Series B led by Founders Fund. Orchestrated 10,000+ fully-autonomous moves.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founded
Milestone
Customers
Revenue growth
Founders and 2017 origin
Yard trucks from 2018
Data & sources
News coverage
2
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →ISEE AI on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Feb 2024. Explore where ISEE AI's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Yibiao Zhao CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Yibiao Zhaocofounderfounded 2017-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for ISEE AI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- ISEE AI2 deployments
Recent coverage
ISEE AI in third-party press
Peers
88 peers across 1 segment. Every ISEE AI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
av(88)
57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%
- ZTO Expressdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIRdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Alsodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aseon Labsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aurora Innovationdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names ISEE AI.
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $70.0M
- Employees
- 96
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
- Series B2022-11-01
Investors: Founders Fund (lead), Maersk Growth (follow), ENIAC Ventures (follow), New Legacy (follow)
- Series A2019-11-11
$15M(reported)
Investors: Founders Fund (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in ISEE AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2022-11-01Series B
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2019-11-01Series A
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedFeb 1, 2024
ISEE Autonomous Yard Truck at Texas, USA (Fortune 100 DC)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2024
ISEE Autonomous Yard Truck at United States (undisclosed Fortune 100 site)
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for ISEE AI.Peer companies
- Waymo5 models
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Plus3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning ISEE AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/isee-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/isee-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/2af11c59-edc2-48ed-a695-370eb526be83
- Revision history: /companies/isee-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Waymo5 models
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Plus3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
Video
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240207572642/en/ISEE-Commercially-Deploys-World%E2%80%99s-First-Fully-Autonomous-Truck-Yard Disclaimer: This video is protected under the standard YouTube license. Any unauthori
ISEE has deployed the world’s first commercial fleet of autonomous yard trucks at a Fortune 100 customer’s site. This cutting edge deployment in Texas represent
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
ISEE AI draws attention at the 27th percentile but verifies reality at the 28th percentile among truck robots. Hype Gap -1, 25th widest among truck robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026