The robotaxi service is expected to launch in late 2026 in an unnamed "major US city," and Uber said that a prototype of an operational autonomous Lucid-Nuro vehicle is currently being tested on a closed circuit at a Nuro facility in Las Vegas.

Uber plans to deploy 20,000 Lucid vehicles with the Nuro Driver automated driving system over six years. That rollout will start with a launch next year. As far as where, Uber and