Nuro
"Autonomy for all. All roads, all rides."
US autonomous-driving company licensing the Level 4 Nuro Driver system, with 1.7M+ autonomous miles and no at-fault incidents.
Nuro, Inc. is an American autonomous vehicle technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2016 by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, both former engineers from Google's self-driving car project (now Waymo). Nuro initially developed custom electric autonomous delivery vehicles and was the first company to receive an autonomous vehicle exemption from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Since September 2024 the company has focused on licensing its proprietary Level 4 driving system, the Nuro Driver, to automakers and mobility providers. The Nuro Driver has been built for Level 4 autonomy since inception and is one of the few driverless technologies deployed on public roads, operating across multiple US states since 2020 with a safety record exceeding 1.7 million autonomous miles without an at-fault incident.
The system pairs an end-to-end AI model with reliable safeguards and a versatile sensor suite of solid-state LiDARs, automotive cameras, and imaging radars, computing on NVIDIA DRIVE Thor SoCs running NVIDIA DriveOS to improve power efficiency, reduce module size, and lower cost. Its operational design domain includes multi-lane roads at speeds up to 35 mph and complex scenarios such as emergency vehicles, construction zones, and school buses. Nuro has major partnerships with Uber and Lucid Motors on a jointly developed global robotaxi combining the Lucid Gravity with the Nuro Driver, with Uber targeting deployment of 20,000 or more such vehicles over six years, plus collaborations with Lenovo and NVIDIA on compute platforms.
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Licensable Level 4 autonomous driving system with 1.7M+ miles and no at-fault incidents.
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