This is Uber’s new robotaxi from Lucid and Nuro

Uber, Lucid Motors, and Nuro person revealed the production-intent mentation of their collaborative robotaxi astatine the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show, and TechCrunch got a sneak peek up of the reveal.

It’s a conveyance that’s been successful the works for much than fractional a twelvemonth now, portion of a woody that saw Uber put $300 cardinal into Lucid and perpetrate to buying 20,000 of the company’s EVs. On Monday, the companies said the robotaxi is already being tested connected nationalist roads up of a planned commercialized work launching successful the San Francisco Bay Area aboriginal this year.

Built connected a Lucid Gravity SUV, the robotaxi has high-resolution cameras, coagulated authorities lidar sensors, and radars integrated into the assemblage and the roof-mounted “halo.” The autonomy bundle is powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Thor computer. That halo besides has integrated LED lights that volition assistance riders place their conveyance (similar to however Waymo’s Jaguar I-Pace SUVs work).

Crucially, each of this other tech is added to the Gravity arsenic it’s being built astatine Lucid Motors’ Casa Grande, Arizona factory, redeeming the companies immoderate clip and money. By comparison, Waymo presently has to instrumentality isolated the I-Pace SUVs it receives from Jaguar and integrate the autonomous tech arsenic it puts them backmost together. (Future Waymo vehicles are planned to beryllium much purpose-built.)

The conveyance unveiled connected Monday is simply a much polished-up mentation of the trial mentation that the 3 companies person spent the past 7 months showing disconnected successful property photos. The newest constituent revealed astatine CES has to bash with however users volition interface with the Uber-Lucid-Nuro robotaxi. That includes a tiny surface connected the halo meant to greet riders and a thrust interface wrong the cabin.

Anyone who has ridden successful a Waymo volition find this UI acquisition familiar. The rear rider surface shows an isometric graphical presumption of the robotaxi moving done metropolis streets, with representations of adjacent cars and pedestrians.

The companies did not person an interactive mentation of the bundle — which is being created by Uber — acceptable to trial retired conscionable yet. But it has been built to amusement the modular accusation similar estimated drop-off time, however overmuch thrust clip is remaining, and clime and euphony controls. There are besides buttons to scope rider enactment and to archer the robotaxi to propulsion over.

The beforehand rider surface shows a batch of the aforesaid information, conscionable connected a larger cardinal touchscreen display. In the objection car connected show astatine the Fontainebleau hotel, a batch of the aforesaid elements appeared connected the Gravity’s sweeping 34-inch curved OLED display, which sits down the steering wheel.

Uber chose to physique this forthcoming “premium” robotaxi work astir the Gravity, and astatine a precocious level it seems similar a omniscient decision. The Gravity is immensely spacious inside, particularly successful the two-row configuration connected show astatine the hotel. (Uber says a three-row mentation volition beryllium available, too.)

That said, the Gravity’s archetypal afloat twelvemonth came with struggles. Lucid fought with bundle issues arsenic it ramped up accumulation of the SUV, and the problems got atrocious capable that interim CEO Marc Winterhoff sent an email to owners successful December apologizing for the “frustrations” they experienced.

Lucid has seemingly been capable to bounce backmost from that, and connected Monday announced that it doubled its 2024 accumulation figures and reached caller income records. Time volition archer if the robotaxi mentation has immoderate of the aforesaid kinds of bundle struggles.

Uber, Lucid, and Nuro said Monday that erstwhile last validation is implicit connected the robotaxi aboriginal this year, existent accumulation versions volition commencement rolling disconnected Lucid’s mill lines successful Arizona. The companies did not springiness a factual timeline for that, though.