Nuro co-founders Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu sent employees an email detailing their decision. Tl;dr: During the fundraising frenzy in 2021 they doubled down on hiring.

Similarly to robotaxi developer Waymo, Nuro has partnered with Uber Eats for food delivery in a 10-year agreement signed in 2022, previewing a future in which robotaxis and delivery robots alike ...

Nuro and Mobileye hope to sell white label self-driving to big automakers as well as up-and-comers like Verne. Most automakers also dwarf Uber but have limited abilities and experience in ride-hail.

Nuro will tailor its Driver product to meet the specific use case of the licensing company, whether it’s a fully autonomous robotaxi or a partially autonomous ADAS feature.

There are a handful of companies which have done this: Waymo, Cruise, May, Nuro, Baidu, WeRide, Pony, and AutoX. (Aurora did it briefly on freeways, and there are some doubts on some of the ...

Nuro has started testing its AV tech on the Las Vegas Strip. I recently sat down with co-founder and president Dave Ferguson. Stay tuned for an update on why the company shifted its business model.

The agency to date has granted only one such application, in 2020, when it allowed startup Nuro to deploy low-speed, autonomous delivery vehicles designed to carry goods rather than people.