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Nuro
Pivoted from autonomous delivery pods to licensing its driver, betting that the winning position is being the Android of autonomy rather than another fleet operator. It still needs a California driverless deployment permit and CPUC approval before carrying a paying passenger.
Furthest stage: Road testing United States Owner: Independent — SoftBank, Nvidia, Uber backed
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Cities carrying passengers
Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 2 tracked here.
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Cities on the tracker
2 as operator.
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Countries
United States.
Where Nuro is live
Every city on the tracker that Nuro touches — as operator, as the app the ride is sold in, or as the stack underneath. A dot marks a city, not a service area.
- Road testingVehicles on public roads; mapping or staff-only rides, no public passengers.
- AnnouncedCommitted city with a date or a permit, not yet driving passengers.
Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Nuro's own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.
City by city
Nuro's stage in each city, furthest along first. Open a row for the launch date, the supervision level and the sources.
United States0 with passengers · 2 tracked
San Francisco Bay Area · California, United States
The densest competitive market on earth: three driverless fleets and a fourth in testing. California's rules are also why Tesla alone must keep a human behind the wheel here.
Robotaxi
- NuroTesting2026~100 Lucid Gravity SUVs, employee riders with a safety operator.
Sources: Waymo One · TechCrunch · Every operator in San Francisco
Houston Texas, United States
Nuro's chosen first commercial market, targeted for 2027 with Lucid Gravity vehicles.
Robotaxi
- NuroAnnounced2027 targetLucid Gravity fleet, commercial service targeted mid-2027.
Sources: Waymo One · Every operator in Houston
Nuro in the news
No Nuro entry in the timeline yet — it only carries launches, permits and decisions that moved the board.
The company
What Nuro is, who owns it, and what it has actually deployed — the same record as the glossary entry on the tracker.
- Type
- Technology developer
- Headquarters
- United States
- Owner
- Independent — SoftBank, Nvidia, Uber backed
- Founded
- 2016
- Approach
- Nuro Driver, licensed to OEMs and fleet operators
- Vehicles
- Lucid Gravity SUV for the Uber programme
- Scale
- ~100-vehicle engineering fleet
- Where
- SF Bay Area (staff testing); Houston targeted 2027