Anthony Levandowski, Pardoned for Stealing 14,000 Google Files, Joins Travis Kalanick's $1.7B Robotics Venture
Travis Kalanick, former Uber CEO, announced that his robotics company Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a funding round backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, and Uber. The company, rebranded from City Storage Systems in March 2026, focuses on robotics for mining and transportation. In April, Atoms acquired Pronto, a heavy industry automation firm founded by Anthony Levandowski. Levandowski, a former Google engineer, was convicted in 2020 for stealing 14,000 trade secret files from Google's self-driving car project (Project Chauffeur/Waymo) when he left to start Otto, which Uber later acquired. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison but was pardoned by President Donald Trump on his last day in office in January 2021. The article highlights the controversial reunion of Kalanick and Levandowski, both central figures in Uber's past legal battles with Google over autonomous driving technology.
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