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Started at Berkeley. Heading to Italy.

Tespen started at UC Berkeley, with three people working out what it would take for a transit operator to run autonomous buses in daily service.

01 / Origin Bay Area / United States
Map of the central San Francisco Bay showing UC Berkeley, where Tespen started, and the San Francisco office at 680 Mission Street. SAN FRANCISCO OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO BAY PACIFIC OCEAN GOLDEN GATE ALCATRAZ 122°30′W 122°24′W 122°18′W 37°45′N 37°48′N 37°51′N 37°54′N 15.7 KM UC BERKELEYWHERE IT STARTED37.8719 N122.2585 W UC BERKELEYWHERE IT STARTED 680 MISSION STSAN FRANCISCO OFFICE37.7868 N 122.4013 W N 05 KM
From a research question at Berkeley to an office in San Francisco.

Operators are already planning to bring back the evening services they cut for lack of drivers, with Ugo.

Partners

Transit operators · Research · Industry

Next stop: partner announcements.

We work with European transit operators and research and industry partners. Their names will appear here as agreements are announced.

Why Europe first

Public transport is part of everyday life in European cities. Cities are compact, routes are shorter, buses run at lower speeds, and operators need more drivers than they can hire.

We spun out of UC Berkeley and are based in San Francisco. Our center of gravity is moving to Europe: we are opening our R&D and operations center in Italy, close to the operators and cities we build for.

Where we are

  • United States

    680 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

  • Italy

    R&D and operations center, opening soon.

Careers

We are a small team working on autonomy, robotics and vehicle integration. If you have built systems that run in the real world, we would like to hear from you.