Uber Eats will begin using Nuro’s automated delivery vehicles for deliveries in Houston and Mountain View, CA.
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Nuro, the developer of street-legal autonomous electric delivery vehicles backed by SoftBank, has entered into a long-term partnership with Uber to use toaster-style microvans, and Silicon Valley and Houston will launch Uber Eats services starting this year. I am using it.
People using the Uber Eats app in Houston and Mountain View, Calif. (where Nuro is based) will be able to order delivery using the new self-driving service this fall. A few months ahead, the companies said. The vehicle will alert people upon arrival, at which point the customer will enter a code to open the compartment containing their order.
The customer enters the code to unlock the storage compartment of the Nuro delivery vehicle and picks up the order.
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Nuro declined to share financial details of its 10-year deal with Uber, nor did it specify the number of new Nuro vehicles that will be deployed in the program.That technology combined with the scale of his Uber “allows us to expand our food delivery options from our favorite local family restaurants to national chains,” said Nuro’s head of partnerships. One Cosimo Leipold said in a statement
Created by two of the first members of Google’s self-driving car project in 2016, Nuro’s focus is not on robo-taxis or autonomous semi-trucks, but on relatively low-speed last-mile delivery services in urban and suburban areas. . The company is also a tremendous fundraiser, with him raising over $2.75 billion to build the business.
Equipped with laser lidar sensors, cameras and radar, the new Nuro self-driving car, which can travel at 45 mph, is being manufactured at the company’s new assembly facility near Las Vegas, with batteries and key components powered by batteries and electricity. .・Vehicle manufacturer BYD. It has no steering wheel, accelerator pedal, brake pedal or other traditional controls and is approved for roadway operation by the State of California and the US Department of Transportation.
Prior to its partnership with Uber, Nuro operated numerous pilot delivery projects with companies and services such as FedEx, Walmart, CVS, Kroger and Domino’s Pizza in Texas, Arizona and California. We also count Chipotle as an investor. The Uber Eats platform has more than 825,000 of his stores in 11,000 cities around the world, so the companies say they could partner with far more merchants as a result of the new partnership. .