From Connectivity to Continuity: Cisco URWB for Autonomous Work Vehicles
Cisco, Saturday, November 7th, 2026
Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul provides the wireless backbone for Honda's Autonomous Work Vehicle in an airfield inspection demonstration.
Cisco describes how its Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) supports Honda's Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV), which uses GPS, LiDAR, and proprietary odometry to navigate off-road and can perform tasks such as perimeter security.
URWB uses MPLS-over-wireless and make-before-break handoffs for lossless roaming and predictable low latency, which Cisco says conventional Wi-Fi may struggle to provide in mobile, mission-critical settings.
In an airfield perimeter-inspection demonstration, the AWV sends anomaly data from the Illuminex AI InspectEx platform, which flags hazards such as foreign object debris and pavement issues, to the cloud over URWB.
URWB also encrypts its data plane and offers multipath operation that duplicates selected packets across paths.