Wayve Timeline

Events

• 2026-09-03 - Deployment - Wayve and Uber launch supervised autonomous rides in London - UberX, Electric and Comfort riders can be matched with a Wayve-equipped vehicle at no extra charge. Around 15 vehicles are operating initially, each with an onboard safety driver. The launch is Wayve AI Driver's first public commercial deployment and is not… - source: investor.uber.com
• 2026-08-12 - Partnership - Uber appoints Hinomaru Kotsu to operate planned Tokyo robotaxi pilot - Hinomaru will manage the depot, maintenance, charging, inspection and fleet uptime. The pilot will use Nissan LEAF vehicles equipped with the Wayve AI Driver and offered through Uber’s platform. The operating appointment advances the earlier… - source: businesswire.com
• 2026-08-11 - Deployment - Wayve reports faster autonomy triage with Foxglove - Event triage moved from hours or days to minutes or seconds after vehicle data was centralized in Foxglove. Nearly 40% of Wayve’s engineering team now uses the platform in daily workflows. Shared event tagging, dashboards and links connect engineers with… - source: foxglove.dev
• 2026-08-03 - Research Publication - Wayve introduces GAIA-4 for closed-loop autonomous-driving simulation - GAIA-4 reconstructs logged road scenes directly from recorded sensor data without HD maps, hand-built scene graphs or a separate annotation stack. Its world-on-rails mode changes the ego vehicle trajectory while holding other road users to their logged… - source: wayve.ai
• 2026-06-17 - Partnership - Stellantis, Wayve and Uber plan L4 robotaxi service - Stellantis contributes an L4-ready vehicle platform. Wayve contributes the AI Driver. Uber contributes its mobility network. - source: globenewswire.com
• 2026-05-29 - Org Change - Wayve launches Wayve Labs to expand embodied-intelligence research beyond self-driving - Wayve launched Wayve Labs as a new AI research unit focused on embodied intelligence beyond autonomous driving. The lab is led by Chief Scientist Jamie Shotton and is intended to explore AI systems that understand and act in the physical world. The… - source: businessinsider.com
• 2026-03-10 - Partnership - Qualcomm and Wayve pre-integrate AI Driver with Snapdragon Ride - Wayve AI Driver is being pre-integrated with Snapdragon Ride and Active Safety. The combined stack targets automaker ADAS and automated-driving programmes. - source: qualcomm.com
• 2026-02-25 - Funding - Wayve raises $1.2B to scale end-to-end autonomous driving systems - Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank led the Series D; Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis also participated. Wayve tied the financing to commercial robotaxi trials in 2026 and supervised autonomy software in consumer vehicles from 2027.… - source: wayve.ai