The buzz for self-driving cars is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to shipping companies

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to look like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick Back to building a robotics companyAnd the talent and capital wars rage in the same way as they did the first time. The money is flowing back, and the people who lived that first wave are the ones building the next wave.

Humble robots Founder and CEO Eyal Cohen is one of them. Cohen was at Otto when Uber approached him, later followed Anthony Levandowski to Pronto, and after two decades of navigating deep tech bets in the Bay Area, his new company emerged from obscurity in April with $24 million to build a fully autonomous electric pickup truck without charging cables.

Cohen joins Kirsten Korosek on this episode of TechCrunch justice A podcast to talk about AV déjà vu and what he’s learned from 15 years of building startups in electric, solar, and robotics.

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