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Avride

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Autonomous-driving company (a subsidiary of Nebius; spun out of the former Yandex self-driving group) operating BOTH sidewalk delivery robots and robotaxis,…

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Founded
2020
HQ
Headquartered in Austin, TX with R&D hubs worldwide; 200+ engineers (verified)
Status
subsidiary

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Avride: 2 models, 23 deployments across 12 regions, $375.0M raised, 89 active incidents. 11 sources back the record.

Regulatory status1 Regulatory filing1 NHTSA investigation

Avride holds 1 Regulatory filing and has 1 NHTSA investigation on record, per the DEPLOY registry.

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CategoryRobotaxis

Appears inLogistics robots

Funding

$375.0M

Models

2

Deployments

23

Employees

270

Overview

Autonomous-driving company (a subsidiary of Nebius; spun out of the former Yandex self-driving group) operating BOTH sidewalk delivery robots and robotaxis, primarily through a partnership with Uber announced in October 2024. Avride secured up to $375 million in strategic investment commitments from Uber and Nebius to support expansion.

Robotaxi: Avride-equipped fully-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles provide public passenger rides on the Uber platform in Dallas (launched December 2025) and Austin, with in-vehicle safety operators present. Delivery: Avride sidewalk delivery robots operate on Uber Eats in Austin, Dallas, and Jersey City (and Philadelphia), and on Grubhub at university campuses including Ohio State.

In May 2026, NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes (Dec 2025-March 2026) in Dallas and Austin, citing 'inappropriate assertiveness and insufficient competence'; the company's delivery robots have also drawn scrutiny including a Jersey City cyclist-injury lawsuit.

Verified record

Verified deployments
23 deployments on file
Active incidents
89 incidents on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$800M (reported, approximate)as of Sep 2023

Priced roundSeed (Uber strategic investment) post-money

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Key facts

Owner

Nebius subsidiary (ex-Yandex SDG); Uber partner since Oct 2024

Fundingsee investors →

Up to $375M committed from Uber + Nebius

Robotaxi

Hyundai Ioniq 5 on Uber — Dallas + Austin (safety operators)

Delivery

Sidewalk bots on Uber Eats (Austin/Dallas/Jersey City) + Grubhub (Ohio State)

Scrutiny

NHTSA probe (16 crashes Dec25-Mar26); Jersey City cyclist-injury lawsuit

Austin HQ

Headquartered in Austin, TX with R&D hubs worldwide; 200+ engineers (verified)

Dallas depot

Uber-managed depot for Avride fleet in Dallas, TX — Uber handles cleaning, maintenance, charging, depot management (verified, Dec 2025)

Data & sources

Press releases

1

News coverage

5

Web sources

5

11 sources backing this record.View all →

Partnerships

Every company Avride has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

3 total3 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Nebius1× joint3 total
  2. 2Uber1× joint35 total
  3. 3Yandex1× joint1 total

Most recent

  1. Avride x Uber2024-10-03
    with Uberjust announced
  2. Avride x Yandex2024-10-03
    with Yandexjust announced

Avride on the deployment map

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23 verified deployments across 12 regions, newest verified Aug 2026. Explore where Avride's robots are operating, by place and type.

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Relationships

NNebiusCo-developerUUberCo-developerYYandexCo-developerUUber (strategic)InvestorAAvrideCustomer

Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Avride, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is a sidewalk delivery robot?
A sidewalk delivery robot is a small autonomous wheeled vehicle that operates in the sidewalk regulatory regime (not roads) for last-mile delivery of food, packages, and small goods. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort enumerates as: Starship Technologies (canonical scaled commercial, multi-country, millions of deliveries) + Coco + Serve Robotics (NASDAQ SERV; Uber Eats partnership) + Kiwibot + Avride + Cartken (hardware-sale; ex-Google founders; Mitsubishi + Uber Eats + Melco ~100-Hauler order) + Ottonomy (RaaS-lease ~$999/mo) + Refraction AI + Delivers AI + (Amazon Scout discontinued Oct 6 2022 + FedEx Roxo paused 2022 + Tortoise shut down 2023 as wind-down record). Business model spectrum: hardware sale (Cartken) vs RaaS-lease (Ottonomy + Refraction) vs captive service (Starship + Delivers AI). State-by-state regulatory variation is the canonical operational gate. Wind-down record is honest editorial signal, not smoothed.Read the full explainer →
What is the Avride delivery robot?
The Avride delivery robot is an autonomous sidewalk delivery robot, evolved from the Yandex rover platform. DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity, running in active service across U.S. cities through food-delivery partnerships, using autonomous driving with remote human oversight.Read the full explainer →
Is the Avride delivery robot autonomous?
Yes, with a human safety net. DEPLOY records the Avride robot's drive mode as autonomous with remote oversight: it drives sidewalks on its own, but remote operators can monitor and take over. That is a supervised autonomy posture, not unsupervised full self-driving.Read the full explainer →
What is the cheapest sidewalk delivery robot for a commercial operator?
No sidewalk delivery robot is sold to commercial operators in 2026: all run captive Robots-as-a-Service. Starship is cheapest by inferred build cost ($3K-$7K per unit, per an Oct 2025 Guardian profile) and by scale (3,000+ robots, 10M+ deliveries).Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (3)

Founders (1)

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Safety record

89 incidents on record (3 serious, 4 moderate, 82 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.

serious
3
moderate
4
minor
82
collision
81
injury
4
regulatory action
3
property damage
1

Most recent: Jul 2026

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Incidents affecting Avride (89)

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Corridors where Avride operates (2)

Robot-delivery corridors on DEPLOY Ground where Avride runs a documented fleet.

Operator customers (1)

Brains developed (1)

Recent coverage

Avride in third-party press

Uber and Avride expand Dallas robotaxi operations

Sep 8, 2026

Autonomous Deliveries Could Go Mainstream By 2030

Aug 31, 2026

Avride brings bigger food delivery robots to UT

Aug 26, 2026

Peers

178 peers across 3 segments. Every Avride competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

av(88)

57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%

amr(85)

53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%

last mile delivery(5)