The Mind of Argo AI

Co-founder and CEO Bryan Salesky brings a realistic approach to the self-driving technology “mission.”

Creating technology solutions that work well in one area but don't scale out is a traditional problem in the robotics field. It's a particular challenge for engineers developing self-driving vehicles, acknowledged Bryan Salesky, the CEO and co-founder of Argo AI. The Pittsburgh-based company is a leader in SAE Level 4 systems development, partnering with Ford and Volkswagen to put autonomous people-movers and delivery vehicles into revenue-generating road use in the next few years. Ford plans to deploy its first units in three U.S. cities in late 2021.

“It's no small task,” Salesky asserted. “We're on a mission to make roads safer at the end of the day, and to give people options as to how they get around” with greater convenience and affordability. But such inflection points “don't just roll out overnight-it's going to be gradual deployments in cities that can support the platform,” he said.