Nuro - non-Human delivery via AI
Nuro
Headquarters: Mountain View
Founders: Jiajun Zhu (CEO), Dave Ferguson
Funding: $1.03 billion
Valuation: $2.7 billion
After working for more than five years each on Google’s self-driving project, Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu were done trying to ferry people around in autonomous vehicles. So, they ditched humans for local goods. Nuro’s driverless delivery vehicles have completed thousands of trips to shoppers through a partnership with Kroger in Texas. Shifting from people to pasta and Poptarts eliminates safety and technical constraints. “You can drive more conservatively because you don’t have someone inside the vehicle that’s getting frustrated,” Ferguson says.
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