[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Aurora advances third-generation hardware work R&D expenses continue to weigh on bottom line Staff Reporter Key Takeaways: - Aurora outlined third-generation autonomous-truck hardware a week after launching its second-generation system, targeting production with Aumovio in the second half of 2027. - The development matters as Aurora ramps commercialization, with quarterly revenue doubling to $2 million while Q2 losses widened to $270 million. - Aurora said third-generation hardware testing is underway and expects its fleet to reach a couple hundred trucks by year-end. A week after launching the second generation of its autonomous trucks on highways, Aurora Innovation detailed some of the advances in the third generation of its hardware. Aurora — whose losses widened in the second quarter of 2026 as the company continues to ramp up development of its products — expects manufacturing of the third-generation hardware by its partner Aumovio to begin in the second half of 2027. Work has already begun on some of the reliability testing for third-generation hardware components, Aurora CEO Chris Urmson said during the company’s Q2 earnings call July 29. The third-generation hardware will also see costs decrease, he added. And Urmson said the hardware timeline would fit with Paccar’s ambitions in the autonomous space. “Paccar and Aurora are jointly defining the path to a scalable launch of our third-generation commercial hardware kit integrated with Paccar’s future autonomy-enabled platform on their assembly lines,” he told analysts. Pittsburgh-based Aurora has partnerships for factory-installed self-driving trucks with Paccar and Volvo Autonomous Solutions. Paccar does not plan to take drivers out of its autonomous trucks yet, CEO Preston Feight emphasized July 28 during the original equipment manufacturer’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call. Kenworth and Peterbilt’s parent company requested the return of observers to the cabs of