Uber has announced that the transportation and delivery company will be expanding its robot delivery capabilities with a new partnership with Nuro: a technology company that creates autonomous electric vehicles.
This will be an expansion of Uber’s foray into robotics, following test pilots in partnership with Serve Robotics’ sidewalk robots and Motional’s autonomous vehicles for longer-distance deliveries, both of which were announced in Los Angeles earlier this year and are “seeing great progress,” according to Uber.
The partnership with Nuro will launch with deliveries in target markets including Houston, Texas and Mountain View, California.
Nuro is currently partnering with Domino’s Pizza, which launched its test of autonomous deliveries using Nuro’s R2 robot back in April 2021. Autonomous delivery capabilities have grown in both scope and demand over the past year.
