Nuro is building Nuro Driver into a licensed robotaxi autonomy stack
The Uber-Lucid program, 20,000-plus planned robotaxis, and 1.7 million autonomous miles move Nuro from delivery vehicles into licensed autonomy.
Nuro announced the Uber-Lucid robotaxi program on July 17, 2025, with plans for 20,000 or more Lucid-Nuro robotaxis across U.S. and international markets. Uber will operate the service through its platform while Nuro supplies the Nuro Driver autonomy system.
Uber described a multiyear program using Lucid Gravity vehicles and Nuro Driver. The first Uber-native robotaxis are planned for a major U.S. city in late 2026; the announcement did not establish an operating fleet.
Nuro began as a purpose-built delivery-vehicle company. It now offers Nuro Driver as a vehicle-agnostic self-driving system for automakers and mobility providers.
As of the July 2025 announcement, Nuro Driver had more than five years of driverless deployments and more than 1.7 million autonomous miles. The August 2025 Series E added $203 million to advance Nuro Driver and commercial partnerships, giving the company more runway for the licensed-autonomy strategy.
Nuro was founded by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu after self-driving work at Google.
The program targets more than 20,000 vehicles.
Have a robotics update Korthos should review? Send news, deployments, product releases, funding rounds, research, or media to [email protected] or reach out on X at @agkorthos.
