"The Bay Area has long been the birthplace of transformative technology, and it's only fitting that Uber's next-generation robotaxi program with Lucid and Nuro will begin here — launching to the public next year," Uber's chief product officer, Sachin Kansal, said in a statement.

Uber and Nvidia are partnering to build a fleet of 100,000 robotaxis. “This is going to be a new computing platform for us, and I’m expecting it to be quite successful,” CEO Jensen Huang said at Nvidia’s first-ever Washington D.C. edition of its highly anticipated GTC AI conference.