Nuro

Nuro is an American robotics company based in Mountain View, California and founded by Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson.[1]

History

Zhu was one of the founding engineers of Google's self driving car project, Waymo, serving as the principle software engineer. Ferguson helped lead Carnegie Mellon University's robotics team to victory in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge before also joining Google's self driving car project in 2011 as its principal computer-vision and machine-learning engineer.[2][3]

Zhu and Ferguson founded Nuro in September 2016.[4] It has raised a total of $92M from Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital.[5]

Product

Nuro officially launched in January 2018, revealing its first product, the R1. The R1 is an electric self-driving local commerce delivery vehicle. It weighs 1,500 pounds (680 kg), and is just over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and about half the width of a sedan. This vehicle is designed to carry only cargo, with space for 12 grocery bags in the first model.[6]

In June 2018, Nuro announced its first partnership with Kroger. The partnership will test the fully autonomous delivery of groceries. [7][8] The pilot launched on August 16, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona at a Fry's Food and Drug store. Initially this pilot will use self-driving Toyota Prius cars, and later this year will also include the R1 vehicle. [9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "Two ex-Google engineers built an entirely different kind of self-driving car". The Verge. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  2. ↑ "Get Yer Bread and Milk From Kroger's Cute New Delivery Robot". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  3. ↑ "Nuro's Driverless Cars Don't Have to Worry About Passenger Safety". Bloomberg. June 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Meet the startup that two of Google's top self-driving engineers left to create". Recode. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  5. ↑ Editorial, Reuters. "California start-up Nuro unveils autonomous delivery van, raises..." U.S. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  6. ↑ "Nuro's Self-Driving R-1 Doesn't Drive You—It Drives Your Stuff". Wired.
  7. ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/07/27/major-grocer-moves-on-phoenix-driverless-delivery.html
  8. ↑ "Self-driving car startup Nuro teams up with Kroger for same-day grocery delivery". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  9. ↑ "Nuro and Kroger are deploying self-driving cars for grocery delivery in Arizona today". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  10. ↑ Pollack, Neal. "Road-Testing the First Autonomous Car Grocery Delivery Service". The Drive. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
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