Waymo News
Latest Waymo news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $3B raised. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Google's autonomous vehicle subsidiary operating robotaxi services in multiple cities.
- Waymo Turns On Public Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, Its 15th U.S. City — — Waymo has begun public driverless robotaxi service on the Las Vegas Strip, opening its 15th U.S. commercial market and capping a four-city September e...
- Autonomous Solutions Puts 255,000 Acres Of Florida Sugarcane On Autopilot With John Deere — — Utah-based Autonomous Solutions has stood up what it calls the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in the history of American sugarcane farming with U.S....
- Waymo opens Las Vegas robotaxi service, its 15th market — — Waymo has started paid rides on the Las Vegas Strip using its Zeekr-built Ojai minivans, adding Nevada's biggest city to a network that now spans 15 U...
- Waymo, Nihon Kotsu And GO Set 2027 Launch For Tokyo's First Fully Autonomous Robotaxi Service — — Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and Japan's largest taxi-hailing app GO have formally agreed to launch an unmanned commercial ride-hailing service in Tokyo in 2027...
- Waymo Launches Robotaxi In Denver, San Diego And Tampa, Adding Zeekr Ojai — — Waymo's public robotaxi service now covers 14 U.S. cities as Denver, San Diego and Tampa go live, with the Zeekr-built Ojai minivan serving two of the...
- Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa — — Waymo brings driverless commercial service to 14 U.S. cities as its Zeekr-built Ojai minivan debuts in Denver and San Diego.
- Lyft Turns On Waymo Robotaxi Matching In Nashville As Uber Exclusivity Cracks — — Nashville riders can now be matched with a Waymo autonomous vehicle straight from the Lyft app, the first US city where the same driverless fleet live...
- Waymo Adds Denver, San Diego And Tampa To Robotaxi Map, Now Live In 14 US Cities — — Waymo has begun offering public robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, extending its commercial network to 14 US cities and rolling out the ne...
- Zoox Robotaxi Service Expands To Las Vegas Airport, First Driverless AV At LAS — — Amazon-owned Zoox extended its commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas to Harry Reid International Airport on September 3, becoming the first driverl...
- Tesla Unveils Production Cybercab At September 3 Austin Launch Event — — Tesla formally unveiled the two-seat production Cybercab at a downtown Austin event on September 3, 2026, kicking off its next robotaxi push against W...
- Uber And Wayve Launch London's First Robotaxis With Supervised Mustang Mach-Es — — Uber and British self-driving developer Wayve began matching UberX, Uber Comfort and Uber Electric riders in London with a small fleet of Wayve-equipp...
- Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs — 10% Of Global Staff — To Fund Robotaxi Push — — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is trimming Uber by 3,300 people, cutting managers 20% and ending remote work as robotaxi partners with Waymo, Zoox, Nuro and Wa...
- Waymo Nears $3B Debut Debt Deal With PIMCO, Blackstone And Sixth Street — — Alphabet's Waymo is finalizing more than $3 billion in unrated debt from PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street Partners — its first-ever debt deal — as...
- Waymo Turns On Driverless Rides In San Diego, Tampa And Denver As Zoox Tests Houston — — Alphabet-owned Waymo opened paid robotaxi service in three new US cities on the same day Amazon's Zoox said it will start supervised testing in Housto...
- Nevada Regulators Clear Path For 8,000 Tesla, Uber And Waymo Robotaxis In Clark County — — The Nevada Transportation Authority approved three commercial permits covering Clark County, opening the door to as many as 8,000 driverless vehicles...
- Waymo Opens Zeekr 'Ojai' Robotaxi To Riders, Slots In Hyundai IONIQ 5 — — Waymo has opened its next-generation Zeekr-built 'Ojai' robotaxi to all riders in select US cities and finalised plans to integrate Hyundai's IONIQ 5...
- Waymo Challenges Tesla's Camera-Only Autonomy Ahead Of Cybercab Rollout — — Waymo is publicly pushing back on Tesla's camera-only autonomy playbook, arguing that reliable Level 4 driverless operation requires redundant percept...
- Waymo Announces Munich Robotaxi Launch Targeting End of 2027 — — Waymo unveiled plans on August 25, 2026 to launch its first commercial European robotaxi service in Munich by the end of 2027, kicking off mapping and...
- Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm ASIC And Seven-Supplier Stack Behind Its Ojai Robotaxi — — Alphabet's Waymo has opened up the boot of its robotaxi, publishing the architecture of its onboard computer, a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC that pu...
- Nevada Clears Tesla, Waymo And Uber For Up To 8,000 Paid Robotaxis In Clark County — — The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 driverless taxis, Waymo up to 1,000 and Uber up to 1,000 through Zoox and Motional, open...