Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a

The Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years.

Uber and Nuro have begun employee test rides of a premium robotaxi service in San Francisco, using the Lucid Gravity SUV equipped with Nuro’s autonomous driving system.

Select Uber employees can now request a ride through the Uber app; the vehicles are operating in autonomous mode with a human safety operator present as backup.

The move marks the latest phase of a partnership announced in July 2025, when Uber made a $300 million investment in Lucid and separately invested an undisclosed ‘multi-hundred-million dollar’ amount into Nuro.

The Lucid Gravity robotaxi was revealed publicly in January 2026. It is fitted with high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar sensors, and radar arrays ...