Uber And Nuro Begin Testing Premium Robotaxi Service In San Francisco

If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged retired pinch sensors — and a self-driving strategy developed by Nuro — driving astir San Francisco, chances are that’s an Uber worker taking a ride.

Select Uber labor tin now petition a thrust successful a Lucid robotaxi done nan Uber app, nan latest shape of testing up of a planned nationalist motorboat later this year. Nuro, which provided nan update in a blog posted Monday, told TechCrunch nan vehicles are operating successful autonomous mode and person a quality information usability down nan instrumentality arsenic backup.

While this is acold from a nationalist launch, it does awesome nan companies’ advancement since announcing a partnership and multi-million investment successful July 2025. Uber invested $300 cardinal successful Lucid and separately agreed to bargain “at least” 20,000 of nan EV maker’s caller Gravity SUV complete nan adjacent six years.

Those EVs are equipped pinch Nuro’s autonomous conveyance system, which is powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Thor computer. The Lucid Gravity robotaxi, which was revealed successful January, is outfitted pinch high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar sensors, and radars that thief nan self-driving strategy comprehend nan existent world situation and run successful it.

Uber besides invested an undisclosed “multi-hundred-million dollar” magnitude into Nuro.

The scheme is for Uber to ain and run — apt pinch nan thief from a 3rd statement — nan premium robotaxi service. Production of these modified Lucid Gravity vehicles is expected to statesman successful precocious 2026, according to a regulatory filing posted past year.

Nuro completed closed-course testing and started its first nationalist roadworthy testing of nan autonomous Lucid Gravity SUVs precocious past year. Nuro now has 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted pinch its self-driving strategy successful nan engineering fleet, utilized to stitchery real-world information and trial autonomous driving crossed aggregate U.S. cities and states.

According to Nuro, nan worker trial rides thief nan squad measure really nan autonomy stack, vehicle, and rider acquisition activity together and usability successful a unrecorded operating environment. It besides allows nan squad to trial really good nan conveyance handles rider pickups and dropoffs, a notoriously tricky cognition successful autonomous ride-hailing.