The Nuro-Uber-Lucid robotaxi program has reached its next validation milestone, with select Uber employees now able to hail a ride in an autonomous Lucid Gravity SUV through the Uber app in San Francisco.
The vehicles are operating in autonomous mode with a human safety operator behind the wheel as backup — standard protocol for this phase of testing. Nuro has 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted with its self-driving system in the engineering fleet, used to gather real-world data and test autonomous driving across multiple U.S. locations. The Gravity is equipped with high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar, and radar, all processed by NVIDIA’s Drive AGX Thor compute platform.
The three-company partnership was announced in July 2025, when Uber made a $300 million investment in Lucid and separately committed to purchase at least 20,000 Gravity SUVs over the next six years. Production of the modified vehicles is expected to begin in late 2026, with a public launch in the San Francisco Bay Area targeted for later this year.
