Applied Intuition and HUMAIN to deploy thousands of autonomous trucks across Saudi Arabia by 2030

Applied Intuition co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis joined HUMAIN CEO Tareq Amin on the main stage on the opening day of LEAP 2026 to announce a strategic collaboration. The two companies will deploy thousands of autonomous trucks throughout Saudi Arabia's key logistics corridors by 2030, creating what they describe as the largest autonomous trucking network in the world. The collaboration is intended to establish a foundational framework for autonomy across the Kingdom, with the goal of expanding into other industries including robotaxis, manufacturing, and agriculture.

The collaboration is the first major initiative under HUMAIN's physical AI strategy, which extends intelligence beyond the data center and into systems that deliver real-world impact. It pairs HUMAIN's sovereign AI infrastructure with Applied Intuition's end-to-end physical AI stack, including its Self-Driving System (SDS), Vehicle OS, and supporting vehicle intelligence offerings. Autonomous trucking comes first, with future phases expanding into other sectors.

At the HUMAIN x Applied Intuition booth, attendees could walk around a driverless truck like the ones that will soon run throughout Saudi logistics corridors and watch in real time as its perception suite built a 360-degree picture of the world around it, while nearby screens showed footage of the technology at work: a HUMAIN truck on the streets of Riyadh and Level 4 autonomous trucks operating with Isuzu in Japan. In a conversation with Benjamin Butterworth, a senior editor at The i Paper, Younis said executing a deployment of this scale takes vision and ambition — not only a goal, but action against that goal — and that people like Amin were crucial in bringing it to life. He said physical AI answers urgent demand: mining accounts for 1% of the global workforce but 8% of workplace fatalities, the average American farmer is 58, and Japan's driver shortage is severe enough that the government declared it an urgent issue. Rather than building a vertical solution, Applied Intuition is a horizontal technology provider, with one platform relying on the same models and operating system to run mines, ports, trucks, and driverless cars across the US, Europe, and Japan. Applied Intuition has opened an office in Riyadh and is hiring a local technical team to launch, operate, and scale autonomous fleets, part of a long-term commitment to making the Kingdom a global center for autonomous logistics.