Lucid Delivers First Gravity SUV for Nuro-Uber Robotaxi Program

Lucid has delivered the first vehicle in its ambitious robotaxi partnership with Nuro and Uber, marking the beginning of a six-year plan to deploy 20,000 autonomous electric SUVs in the United States.

The initial Lucid Gravity SUV was built at the company’s Arizona plant and shipped to California, where Nuro engineers fitted it with autonomous hardware before moving it to Santa Clara for software integration and testing.

Prototype delivery

The first Gravity SUV serves as an engineering prototype and will undergo extensive validation before commercial deployment. Nuro is integrating its Driver software into the vehicle, a process that will eventually take place on Lucid’s assembly line rather than post-production, according to The Verge.

The companies aim to launch the first operational robotaxi on Uber’s ride-hailing network sometime next year, beginning in select markets. While the prototype marks an important step, scaling the program to 20,000 vehicles will take years and significant coordination across manufacturing and software development.

Scaling ambitions

Lucid, Nuro, and Uber’s partnership represents one of the largest commitments yet in the autonomous vehicle sector. Nuro executives have hinted the deal could expand well beyond 20,000 units over time. Still, the timeline reflects the broader challenges facing robotaxi developers. Despite years of investment, most companies are operating limited fleets.

Waymo runs fewer than 2,000 robotaxis across select cities, while Tesla continues testing vehicles with human monitors in Texas. Previous projections of rapid, large-scale rollouts have proven difficult to achieve, and the Lucid–Nuro–Uber project will face similar hurdles. Even so, delivering the first Gravity SUV into testing signals momentum toward eventually bringing autonomous EVs into everyday ride-hailing services.

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