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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001828108-23-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AUR"
cik: "0001828108"
company_name: "Aurora Innovation, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T09:20:46.556548+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aurora partners with Continental for exclusive autonomous trucking hardware deal; production start in 2027

## Summary
- Continental to deliver Aurora Driver hardware kits and fallback system; start of production expected 2027.
- Hardware-as-a-service model: Aurora pays Continental per-mile; development costs capped at $345M.
- Exclusive partnership with defined exclusivity periods for L4+ systems and AD kit suppliers.
- Aurora Horizon trucking subscription service expected to launch in 2024, before hardware production.
- Milestones for development and commercialization with remedies for missed deadlines.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001828108-23-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AUR
- cik: 0001828108
- company_name: Aurora Innovation, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828108/000182810823000073/0001828108-23-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828108/000182810823000073/aur-20230426.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001828108-23-000073.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Aurora Innovation, Inc. entered into Strategic Partnership Agreement with Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH and its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Autonomous Mobility GmbH (collectively, 'Continental') (effective 2023-04-26).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: collaboration
  - Counterparty: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH and its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Autonomous Mobility GmbH (collectively, 'Continental')
  - Effective: 2023-04-26
  source text: On April 26, 2023, Aurora Innovation, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Aurora Operations, Inc. (collectively, “ Aurora ”), entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement (the “ SPA ”) with Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH and its wholly owned subsidiary, Continental Autonomous Mobility GmbH (collectively, “ Continental ”), pursuant to which Continental will, among other things, act as Aurora’s “Hardware-as-a-Service” partner for the production, provision, and full lifecycle support of Aurora’s future generation of its Aurora Driver hardware system (the “ AD Kits ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828108/000182810823000073/0001828108-23-000073-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.