Aurora Innovation

Aurora Innovation, Inc., doing business as Aurora, is a self-driving vehicle technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Aurora has developed the Aurora Driver, a computer system that can be integrated into vehicles for autonomous driving. It was co-founded by Chris Urmson, the former chief technology officer of Google/Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving team, which became known as Waymo, as well as by Sterling Anderson, former head of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, former head of Uber's autonomy and perception team. Aurora tests vehicles that use its technology in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. In addition to its headquarters in Pittsburgh, the company also has had offices in Mountain View, California; San Francisco; Bozeman, Montana; Detroit, Michigan; Louisville, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; and Texas.