Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco - BERITAJA

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

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

While this is acold from a nationalist launch, it does awesome the 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 the EV maker’s caller Gravity SUV complete the 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 the self-driving strategy comprehend the 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 the thief from a 3rd statement — the 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 the autonomous Lucid Gravity SUVs precocious past year. Nuro now has 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted pinch its self-driving strategy successful the engineering fleet, utilized to stitchery real-world information and trial autonomous driving crossed aggregate U.S. cities and states.

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