A self-driving startup raises $1.2B as Waymo reaches ten cities

Claim

London's Wayve raised $1.2 billion at $8.6 billion with Mercedes and Nissan backing, Waymo opened in four more US cities for ten total, and Chinese farmers began using quadruped robots to haul crops through mountains.

Reported metric: $1.2B / 10 cities

Reporting date: 2026-02-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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