Nuro is investing $40 million to set up an assembly facility and test site near Las Vegas in preparation for ramping up the production of thousands of battery-powered robotic delivery vehicles
Nuro's autonomous electric vehicles are designed to deliver groceries, food and other small items to customers in residential communities.and Chipotle, is investing $40 million to set up an assembly facility and test site near Las Vegas in preparation for ramping up the production of thousands of battery-powered robotic delivery vehicles.
The Mountain View, California-based company says construction of its 125,000-square-foot assembly facility begins late this year in Southern Nevada. It is to open in 2022 and begin putting together small commercial vehicles built from platforms supplied by electric truckmaker BYD’s Lancaster, California, factory.
“We're not going to be building tens of thousands of vehicles from day one, but certainly that's the intent, to dramatically scale up our ability to manufacture vehicles. That's the intent of this third-generation platform,” Ferguson tells Forbes. “We haven't given any details on that yet, but will be doing that shortly. It's intended to be our mass-manufactured scale platform to hopefully provide service across the entire country.
Nuro’s manufacturing facility near Las Vegas will be able to produce tens of thousands of electric robotic delivery vehicles a year.Founded by two former members of the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2016, Nuro has focused exclusively on developing driverless vehicles for deliveries and logistics, not robotic taxis like those of Waymo, the commercial incarnation of Google’s program. The company has raised a prodigious amount of funding, totaling at least $1.
Along with developing software for autonomous driving, the company continues to refine designs for dedicated delivery vehicles. Its current fleet of robotic R2s are small, toaster-shaped vehicles that have been used in delivery pilot programs hauling groceries, food, pizza and
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