Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco
If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged-out with sensors — and a self-driving system developed by Nuro — driving around San Francisco, chances are that’s an Uber employee taking a ride. 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 posted Monday, told TechCrunch the vehicles are operating in autonomous mode and have a human safety operator behind the wheel as backup. While this is far from a public launch, it does signal the companies’ progress since announcing a partnership and multimillion-dollar investment in July 2025. Uber invested $300 million in Lucid and separately agreed to buy “at least” 20,000 of…
