Tag: nuro
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Uber and Nuro agree 10-year partnership for autonomous food deliveries starting in California and Texas
Uber Technologies and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle technology company, have agreed a multi-year partnership to use Nuro’s autonomous, electric vehicles for food deliveries in the United States. Uber Eats consumers will be able to order meals and goods delivered by Nuro’s zero-occupant autonomous delivery vehicles, which run on public roads and are built specifically to…
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BYD to mass manufacture Nuro’s electric autonomous delivery vehicle
BYD, one of China’s largest automotive and technology companies, has agreed a partnership with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to begin producing the company’s third-generation electric autonomous delivery vehicle. The partnership is expected to scale Nuro’s more affordable, eco-friendly, and convenient services to millions of people across the country. Stella Li, executive vice president of BYD…
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Nuro launches new autonomous grocery delivery vehicle
The hugely well-funded autonomous vehicle company Nuro has unveiled its third-generation autonomous delivery vehicle, and says it is ready to mass manufacture the vehicle. Describing it as “the most advanced zero-occupant vehicle designed by the company to date”, the new flagship model, simply called “Nuro”, is expected to scale its safe, eco-friendly, and convenient services…
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Nuro raises $600 million in Series D funding
Nuro, a startup that has produced an autonomous delivery vehicle, has raised $600 million in its latest funding round. The company is currently valued at almost $10 billion and is building a manufacturing facility in Nevada. This latest financing round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management & Research…
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Toyota-backed investment fund Woven Capital buys stake in Nuro
Woven Capital, an $800 million global investment fund established by the Toyota Research Institute, has made an equity investment in Nuro, a robotics company developing autonomous delivery vehicles. The investment is part of Nuro’s Series C round of funding, advancing its work in designing and engineering self-driving road vehicles to transform local commerce through autonomous…
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Nuro awarded ‘first ever’ autonomous vehicle permit in California
Nuro claims it has become “the first company” to receive a permit to deploy autonomous vehicles on public streets from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. This permit will allow its vehicles to operate commercially on California roads in two counties near Nuro’s headquarters in the Bay Area. Nuro says it will soon announce its…
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Nuro partners with CVS Pharmacy to deliver medicines using its autonomous vehicle
Nuro is partnering with CVS Pharmacy to deliver medicines using its autonomous vehicle. Starting this month, the “first-of-its-kind partnership” brings Nuro into the health space as the startup utilizes its fleet of autonomous vehicles to deliver prescriptions and essentials across three zip codes in Houston, Texas. Pharma is the third industry sector in which Nuro…
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Nuro puts its delivery robot into action against coronavirus
Nuro, a California-based startup building small, wheeled autonomous delivery robots, is using its technology in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in the US. (See video below.) America now has the highest death toll in the world from Covid-19 and authorities have set up many temporarily hospitals and treatment centres across the country. One of…
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Nuro and Domino’s partner on autonomous pizza delivery
Nuro, a developer of driverless road-going vehicles, is partnering with fast-food chain Domino’s to deliver pizzas to customers at their homes. A statement on Nuro’s blog says: “We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with Domino’s, the world’s largest pizza company, to deliver pizza autonomously.” Nuro’s self-driving delivery service first launched in 2018 through its…
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Logistics and supply chain: An overview of ‘goods-to-person’ and ‘last-mile delivery’ technologies
The term “goods to person” in the context of the logistics and supply chain sector refers to technology that brings items from locations within, for example, a warehouse to a human picker while he or she remains in one place, also within the warehouse. And while “logistics” and “supply chain” are terms that are often…