ISEE partners with investor Holman on autonomous yard trucks

ISEE, a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has formed a strategic partnership with Holman, an investor in the company, to provide autonomous yard trucks in North America. Holman will lease, retrofit, and maintain the trucks that run ISEE's autonomy system. Customers can choose to put ISEE's system on their existing trucks, lease trucks from Holman, or use ISEE's autonomous-ready vehicles.

Debbie Yu, ISEE's president and co-founder, explained that customers often don't have a ready fleet to automate. They need to consider purchasing, leasing, or renting a truck before ISEE can retrofit it with their autonomy kit and deliver it to the customer site. Yu emphasized that retrofitting trucks in-house would require hiring many more technicians, which is not within ISEE's expertise.

Holman has been retrofitting trucks for years and operates a nationwide network of shops and technicians. Holman launched Holman Robotics, a unit that combines robot fleet leasing and management with lifecycle services, in December 2025. The partnership aims to provide customers with a comprehensive solution covering the full vehicle lifecycle.

ISEE is now at an inflection point, with multiple F100 customers interested in deploying autonomous yard truck fleets over the next couple of years. Holman will retrofit existing trucks, while new units will come through OEMs, including TICO, which partnered with ISEE in April 2025. ISEE plans to work with other yard truck OEMs on new diesel, alternative-fuel, and electric models.

The demand for autonomous yard trucks is rising as manufacturing, data centers, and infrastructure grow in the United States.