 On June 25, 2020, Waymo announced a partnership with Volvo to integrate Waymo’s self-driving technology into their vehicles.Google's development of self-driving technology began on January 17, 2009, at the company's secretive X lab run by co-founder Sergey Brin.The project was launched by Sebastian Thrun, the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)and Anthony Levandowski, founder of 510 Systems and Anthony's Robots.