Nuro
Nuro is a Robotaxi / AV company founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, United States. It has raised $2.3B in total funding, most recently a Series E in 2025 at a $6B valuation.
Nuro was founded in 2016 by former Google/Waymo engineers Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company first built small autonomous delivery vehicles, then repositioned to license its Level-4 "Nuro Driver" autonomy system to automakers and mobility operators. In July 2025 Nuro, Lucid and Uber announced a next-generation robotaxi program built on the Lucid Gravity SUV, with Uber since raising its commitment to more than 35,000 Lucid vehicles and $500 million invested in total. In August 2025 Nuro closed a $203 million Series E at a $6 billion valuation with investors including Uber, NVIDIA, Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price. The production robotaxi was unveiled at CES 2026, with on-road testing underway since December 2025, and in May 2026 Nuro received a California driverless testing permit ahead of a planned Bay Area robotaxi launch via the Uber app.
Nuro's pivot from delivery bots to a licensable L4 "driver" — now powering the Uber-Lucid Gravity robotaxi — is a test of the platform-licensing model for autonomy.
nuro.ai ↗·Robotaxi / AV·
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