The Autonomy Report

The Autonomy Report is a weekly newsletter that dives into the world of autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, and AI agents. It connects the dots across these fields by sharing real deployment data, cost analysis, and design lessons from various autonomous systems. The newsletter covers a wide range of topics including warehouse automation, robotaxi services, cargo drones, humanoid robots, and AI-powered autonomy across ground, air, water, and space applications.

This newsletter is designed for founders, product managers, designers, engineers, investors, and researchers who want to understand what autonomous technologies are actually shipping and scaling. It offers practical insights by tracking real deployments with actual unit counts, costs, and verified sources, avoiding hype and speculation. Subscribers also get free access to the Autonomy Deployment Database, which tracks deployments across 10 categories such as humanoid robots, warehouse robots, autonomous trucks, and delivery robots.

Rob Gourley, who leads product design for autonomous systems at Shield AI, publishes The Autonomy Report. His background in product design for autonomy adds credibility and depth to the newsletter's content. The writing style is straightforward and data-driven, focusing on real numbers and lessons learned from the field. The newsletter is published weekly and aims to keep readers informed about the latest developments and business aspects of autonomous systems.