Cohen: Hub-to-hub autonomous freight faces economic hurdles from depot friction
Eyal Cohen · Cracking the code on autonomous trucking · May 7, 2026 · at 39:47
Eyal Cohen, founder of Humble Robotics, analyzes why transfer depots create friction and unit economic challenges for long-haul autonomous freight startups.
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“The challenge in that is, today, you don't have those depots, and somebody has to build those depots, and those depots are friction. Like, who is moving the freight to that depot And why do they want to move into that depot, as opposed to just what they do today, which is just take it from their warehouse to the other end. And so you can see that, like, some of the, I think the economics here are tough, and in this industry in particular, the economics matter a lot.”
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