Motive Unveils the Future of Physical Operations at Vision 26: A New Era of Integrated Hardware and AI Innovations

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2026--

Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today unveiled a major expansion of its platform at Vision 26, its annual innovation summit. The company introduced new integrated hardware and AI innovations designed to solve the two biggest challenges facing physical operations teams: fragmented tools and time-consuming manual work. The new capabilities consolidate data into a single view and automate complex workflows with AI that takes action. Now teams can focus on what matters most and unlock new levels of safety and productivity.

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“Every operations leader we talk to describes a common set of problems—their systems are too fragmented, and their workflows are too manual. The answer is integration and automation,” said Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive. “Motive has spent years breaking down the data silos. Now we’re helping our customers leverage AI to surface critical insights and automate interventions so they can run safer and more productive operations.”

“Motive has transformed how we protect our drivers and operate our business,” said Jason Ramsey, North American Land Transportation Manager at Halliburton. “By turning real-time insights into immediate action, the platform helps us improve safety, reduce manual workload, and drive better performance every day. We no longer just see risk—we stop it before it leads to loss. With real-time intervention and automation, we’re preventing collisions, eliminating hours of manual work, and keeping operations running at peak efficiency.”

“Motive isn’t just applying AI, it is generating the proprietary data that powers it,” said Adhish Luitel, Research Director, ABI Research. “By combining hardware, integrated data, and proprietary built AI models, Motive moves beyond insight to real-time action in a way many software platforms cannot. The combination of hardware and well-executed AI improves safety and delivers measurable ROI for its customers.”

AI Omnicam Plus: New AI-Powered Integrated Hardware That Delivers 360-Degree Visibility

At the center of Motive’s Vision 26 keynote is AI Omnicam Plus, Motive’s new camera system that delivers AI-powered 360-degree visibility around the vehicle. Built on the AI Dashcam Plus platform and powered by the Qualcomm® Dragonwing™ QCS6490 processor, it can run more than 30 AI models simultaneously, which enables it to detect more road hazards in real time with high accuracy and low latency. Through an in-cab monitor, drivers see what’s happening around the vehicle in real time from every angle. This 360-degree view combined with real-time AI-powered alerts enables drivers to detect and respond to risks, such as pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles to prevent incidents before they happen.

AI Dashcam Plus: Advanced AI Designed To Detect More Risks and Prevent More Collisions

Motive also announced new capabilities for AI Dashcam Plus, its latest commercial vehicle AI dash cam that combines telematics and cameras in a unified device, and enables advanced AI to detect unsafe behavior and alert drivers in real time. AI Dashcam Plus enables teams to see more, act faster, and prevent more collisions.

New capabilities include:

Atlas: A New AI Assistant That Turns Insights Into Action

Motive also unveiled Atlas, its new AI assistant, that allows customers to ask questions, analyze data, and take action in one place. Powered by Motive AI, it surfaces insights instantly from across the platform, reducing the need to search across systems or rely on static reports. Whether checking vehicle health, reviewing safety events, or resolving compliance issues, what once took hours now happens in seconds. Atlas enables faster, more confident decisions while reducing manual work.

Through Motive’s new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, Atlas extends beyond the Motive Dashboard into third-party AI tools, such as Claude and ChatGPT, that customers use everyday. By connecting Motive data with other internal and third-party data sources, Atlas can automate complex strategic tasks, like benchmarking insurance rates and generating data-backed renegotiation proposals, in seconds.

Atlas also lives in the cab with the Motive Voice Assistant. Voice Assistant brings this intelligence directly to drivers on the road and enables safer operations and faster response in critical moments. With simple voice commands such as “Hey Motive, call dispatch” or “Hey Motive, record video,” drivers can get help, capture critical information, and stay connected without taking their eyes off the road.

Automations: AI That Acts Before You Do

Motive also introduced Automations, which enables organizations to move from insight to action instantly. Today, critical work depends on manual monitoring, which slows response and allows issues to escalate. Automations trigger immediate action based on real-time signals, so managers no longer need to catch and respond to every issue themselves. For example, if a vehicle reports a critical fault code, Motive can immediately contact the driver and instruct them to pull over, before the driver or manager even notices the issue. Automations take action in the moment, without waiting for human intervention.

Managers can apply Automations across safety, maintenance, and operations to address time-sensitive and hard-to-monitor tasks. With a few clicks, managers can:

By automating manual and urgent work, Motive helps organizations reduce risk, improve productivity, and ensure critical actions happen exactly when they are needed.

AI Vision: Turning Visual Intelligence into Automated Action

Motive also introduced new ways that AI Vision is automating manual tasks through computer vision for industries across the physical economy. Traditionally, drivers and field workers have had to manually document what they are observing in the field, such as service issues or site hazards. This manual process was slow, prone to error, and costly. AI Vision eliminates this manual burden by "observing" the environment and automatically identifying and logging critical data in real time. By transforming video into structured actionable data, AI Vision solves complex operational problems across the physical economy, from public sector infrastructure monitoring to construction site safety.

For industries like waste services, AI Vision delivers immediate financial impact through specialized models for overage detection, recycling contamination detection, and service verification. Overage detection for example, automatically identifies overfilled waste containers at the point of service. These insights allow organizations to automatically verify work and accurately bill for violations, generating new revenue and right-sizing customer bins without requiring a single manual entry from the driver.

Learn more about Motive’s new AI-powered products announced at Vision 26 and visit gomotive.com for more details.

About Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, waste services, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Motive unveils a major expansion of its platform at Vision 26, its annual innovation summit.

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — For patients in an Ebola outbreak with no approved medicine or vaccine, there is little comfort. But Arlette Basekawike, a volunteer for the U.N. food agency, is doing her best.

Her hair covered by a pink bonnet, Basekawike prepares porridge, omelets and bread for breakfast in a shed outside the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo. Lunch and dinner might include fresh fish with fufu, made of mashed plantains, finished off by fruit. She feeds both patients and health workers.

“Even though the patients have this disease, they still feel better when they eat, and the doctors have the energy to treat the sick and give them medication,” Basekawike told The Associated Press as she prepared vegetables and potatoes with goat meat in a large pot. “I’m here for them like a parent, preparing food so they feel comfortable.”

Her contribution may appear like a simple task, but it has become a critical support for the remote region as it grapples with the rapidly spreading Bundibugyo virus, the rare species of Ebola confirmed in May.

As of Tuesday, 321 cases including 48 deaths had been confirmed in the Central African nation’s three eastern provinces of Ituri, North and South Kivu, according to the World Health Organization. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said the number of suspected cases has dropped to 116 from 906 last weekend as many were ruled out after investigation.

Neighboring Uganda's has had 15 cases and one death confirmed, its health ministry said Tuesday. Uganda closed its border with Congo last week despite WHO guidance not to do so.

Meanwhile, Congolese authorities reopened Bunia’s airport on Tuesday for domestic flights, requiring passengers to undergo temperature checks and respect strict sanitary measures.

The International Organization for Migration on Tuesday urged governments to strengthen cross-border coordination instead, warning that border closures could drive people's movement underground and increase transmission risks.

“Viruses do not stop at borders, and neither should our response,” said Ugochi Daniels, IOM deputy director-general for operations. “When borders close, people often continue moving through informal routes where health screening and surveillance are limited.”

The Congo-Uganda border has numerous footpaths beyond formal border posts.

Before the outbreak, the region already faced one of the world's most severe food crises, because of an ongoing conflict that has displaced millions of people as government forces fight rebels. The United Nations has warned that might complicate efforts to manage the spread of the virus among an already wary population.

“Ebola is an additional crisis on top of a crisis,” said Olivier Nkakudulu, who heads the World Food Program in Ituri province.

WFP is facing a critical choice as aid cuts by the U.S. and other major partners have disrupted operations in the vulnerable region. Efforts to contain the disease, which WHO has deemed a public health emergency of international concern, have been hampered.

Meanwhile, attacks by suspicious residents on health workers and the slow delivery of aid because of the conflict have been challenging.

Responders say they have ensured patients' nutritional demands are met as “comfort food” takes on a more significant meaning.

“Today we need to increase the amount because the number of patients has gone up,” said Esther Bao, a nurse and one of the volunteers. She worried about patients who, because of their health situation, “don't eat just any meal.”

Among the rare signs of optimism, at least five people have recovered in the outbreak, which continues to spread.

More than 400 meals have been served since the food assistance began on Thursday, according to Nkakudulu.

But "without more funding, we might not be able to prioritize every suspected case,” Nkakudulu said. "We might have to focus on some and not have food to give to others."

Adetayo reported from Lagos, Nigeria. Geir Moulson in Berlin and Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal, contributed to this report.

Workers paste a waiting area at Bunia National Airport with Ebola awareness posters in Bunia, Congo, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Cooks prepare meals for Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

People work at the World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse where supplies for the Ebola response are kept in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A health worker receives food for medical staff and Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Arlette Basekawike prepares meals for Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Kavugho Hortense, a cook, delivers meals to the medical staff and Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Arlette Basekawike prepares meals for Ebola patients at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)