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If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged-out with sensors \u2014 and a self-driving system developed by Nuro \u2014 driving around San Francisco, chances are that\u2019s an Uber employee taking a ride.<\/p>\n
Select Uber employees can now request a ride in a Lucid robotaxi through the Uber app, the latest phase of testing ahead of a planned public launch later this year. Nuro, which provided the update in a blog<\/a> posted Monday, told TechCrunch the vehicles are operating in autonomous mode and have a human safety operator behind the wheel as backup.<\/p>\n While this is far from a public launch, it does signal the companies\u2019 progress since announcing a partnership and multimillion-dollar investment<\/a> in July 2025. Uber invested $300 million in Lucid and separately agreed to buy \u201cat least\u201d 20,000 of the EV maker\u2019s new Gravity SUV over the next six years.<\/p>\n Those EVs are equipped with Nuro\u2019s autonomous vehicle system, which is powered by Nvidia\u2019s Drive AGX Thor computer. The Lucid Gravity robotaxi, which was revealed in January<\/a>, is outfitted with high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar sensors, and radars that help the self-driving system perceive the real-world environment and operate in it.<\/p>\n Uber also invested an undisclosed \u201cmulti-hundred-million dollar\u201d amount into Nuro.<\/p>\n The plan is for Uber to own and operate \u2014 likely with the help from a third party \u2014 the premium robotaxi service. Production of these modified Lucid Gravity vehicles is expected to begin in late 2026,\u00a0according to a regulatory filing<\/a> posted last year.<\/p>\n Nuro completed closed-course testing and started its first public road testing of the autonomous Lucid Gravity SUVs late last year. Nuro now has 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted with its self-driving system in the engineering fleet, used to gather real-world data and test autonomous driving across multiple U.S. cities and states.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<\/span> According to Nuro, the employee test rides help the team evaluate how the autonomy stack, vehicle, and rider experience work together and function in a live operating environment. It also allows the team test how well the vehicle handles rider pickups and drop-offs, a notoriously tricky operation in autonomous ride-hailing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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