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Nuro
Nuro, Inc. is an American autonomous vehicle technology company based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2016 by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, Nuro develops autonomous delivery vehicles and became the first company to receive an autonomous exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The company was founded by engineers of Google's self-driving car project, Waymo. Jiajun Zhu served as the principal software engineer and Dave Ferguson joined in 2011 as the principal machine learning engineer. Both left Waymo in 2016 and founded Nuro that September.
Nuro officially launched and showcased its first product, an electric self-driving local commerce delivery vehicle, in January 2018 with $92 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital. Known as the R1, it weighed 1,500 pounds (680 kg) and was just over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, about half the width of a sedan. This vehicle was designed to carry only cargo, with space for 12 grocery bags in the first model.
In June 2018, Nuro announced its first partnership with Kroger to test the fully autonomous delivery of groceries.
The pilot launched on August 16, 2018, in Scottsdale, Arizona at a Fry's Food and Drug store. Initially, self-driving Toyota Prius cars were used for the pilot. On December 18, 2018, the R1 was officially launched into the pilot.
In February 2019, Nuro raised $940 million from SoftBank Group, which valued the company at $2.7 billion.
On June 17, 2019, Nuro announced its partnership with Domino's Pizza to launch in Houston later that year.
In February 2020, Nuro began testing the R2, the second generation of self-driving vehicles, in Houston, Texas. In April 2020, Nuro announced that the R2 prototype was being used to transport medical supplies around medical facilities in California. The R2 was designed with no steering wheel, side view mirrors, or pedals.
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Nuro
Nuro, Inc. is an American autonomous vehicle technology company based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2016 by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, Nuro develops autonomous delivery vehicles and became the first company to receive an autonomous exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The company was founded by engineers of Google's self-driving car project, Waymo. Jiajun Zhu served as the principal software engineer and Dave Ferguson joined in 2011 as the principal machine learning engineer. Both left Waymo in 2016 and founded Nuro that September.
Nuro officially launched and showcased its first product, an electric self-driving local commerce delivery vehicle, in January 2018 with $92 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital. Known as the R1, it weighed 1,500 pounds (680 kg) and was just over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, about half the width of a sedan. This vehicle was designed to carry only cargo, with space for 12 grocery bags in the first model.
In June 2018, Nuro announced its first partnership with Kroger to test the fully autonomous delivery of groceries.
The pilot launched on August 16, 2018, in Scottsdale, Arizona at a Fry's Food and Drug store. Initially, self-driving Toyota Prius cars were used for the pilot. On December 18, 2018, the R1 was officially launched into the pilot.
In February 2019, Nuro raised $940 million from SoftBank Group, which valued the company at $2.7 billion.
On June 17, 2019, Nuro announced its partnership with Domino's Pizza to launch in Houston later that year.
In February 2020, Nuro began testing the R2, the second generation of self-driving vehicles, in Houston, Texas. In April 2020, Nuro announced that the R2 prototype was being used to transport medical supplies around medical facilities in California. The R2 was designed with no steering wheel, side view mirrors, or pedals.