Company
Autonomous vehicle joint venture (formed 2020 from Aptiv + Hyundai Motor Group). Paused commercial service May 2024 during restructuring (Aptiv exiting, layoffs). Relaunched with Uber in Las Vegas March 2026 with safety operators; targeting fully driverless Level 4 by end-2026. Primary vehicle: Hyundai IONIQ 5.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Founded 2020 · 1 model on record
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/motional.md
- RSS feed: /companies/motional/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/c785150a-ee0b-4a51-bab8-384a0d5cd50e
- Revision history: /companies/motional/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
- HQ
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Founded
- 2020
- Status
- Hyundai-majority (Aptiv reduced to ~15%; Hyundai ~85% + ~$1B additional investment 2024); targeting commercial Level 4 robotaxi Las Vegas by end-2026
- ID
c785150a-ee0b-4a51-bab8-384a0d5cd50e
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Models (1)
Sources (2)
Common questions
- What is Motional?
- Autonomous vehicle joint venture (formed 2020 from Aptiv + Hyundai Motor Group). Paused commercial service May 2024 during restructuring (Aptiv exiting, layoffs). Relaunched with Uber in Las Vegas March 2026 with safety operators; targeting fully driverless Level 4 by end-2026. Primary vehicle: Hyundai IONIQ 5.
- Where is Motional based?
- Motional is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- When was Motional founded?
- Motional was founded in 2020.
- What does Motional make?
- Motional has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Motional IONIQ 5 Robotaxi (Motional builds physical robots).
- Where does Motional operate robots?
- Motional is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-06
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-06
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Motional.