August 26, 2021 06:00 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/26/22642846/nuro-autonomous-delivery-factory-test-track-nevada
Nuro is building a factory and test track in Nevada for its autonomous delivery robots
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, announced a dramatic expansion of its physical footprint. The company said it will spend $40 million on the construction of a manufacturing facility and test track for its fleet of self-driving robot vehicles. Both facilities will be located in Southern Nevada, which in recent years has become a hotbed for manufacturing and testing for the future of transportation.
Nuro, which is valued at $5 billion, was founded in 2016 by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, two veterans of the Google self-driving car project that would go on to become Waymo. It is one of the few companies to be operating fully driverless vehicles — that is, vehicles without safety drivers behind the...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/26/22642846/nuro-autonomous-delivery-factory-test-track-nevada
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