Waymo News
Latest Waymo news and analysis — 40 articles tagged Waymo on The Robotics Media.
- Waymo Opens Robotaxis To Teenagers In Nashville — — Waymo extends its teen rider program from Phoenix to Nashville, letting parents grant 13-to-17-year-olds their own driverless accounts.
- Waymo, Nihon Kotsu And GO Set 2027 Launch For Tokyo Driverless Robotaxis — — Waymo unveiled a three-way tie-up with Nihon Kotsu and mobility app GO to run about 100 Jaguar I-PACEs across seven Tokyo wards in 2027 — its first pa...
- Waymo Sets 2028 Robotaxi Launch in Singapore, Its First Southeast Asia Market — — Alphabet's Waymo will bring its all-electric robotaxi service to Singapore in 2028, using Jaguar I-PACE vehicles and a 2027 manual-driving training ph...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- Zoox Turns On The Meter In Las Vegas With 2,500-Vehicle NHTSA Exemption — — Amazon-owned Zoox began charging for driverless rides in Las Vegas on August 10 after NHTSA granted a two-year commercial exemption covering up to 2,5...
- 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...
- Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis For Tesla, Uber And Waymo In Las Vegas — — Nevada's transportation regulator unanimously cleared Tesla, Uber and Waymo to run paid robotaxi services across Clark County, unlocking up to 8,000 d...