# Nuro Autonomous Prius at Houston: deployment

Canonical ID: `0973745f-26ef-4f9e-bc9a-f32f7cf663ac`

Kroger and Nuro launched an autonomous grocery-delivery service in Houston in March 2019, Nuro's flagship grocery partnership after an earlier Arizona pilot. It never scaled to a permanent commercial rollout and wound down with Nuro's September 2024 pivot to licensing. The pilot did not convert.

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-07-09_

- **Slug:** nuro-kroger-houston
- **Status:** ended
- **Model:** [Nuro Autonomous Prius](/models/nuro-prius.md) (id: `c92b6850-a94e-4a13-997f-54967796f85d`)
- **Company:** [Nuro](/companies/nuro.md) (id: `24cc7835-a940-4663-a48b-803f6e546dea`)
- **Location:** [Houston](/locations/united-states/texas/houston.md) (id: `360f0034-a348-409b-b804-fdbf8b23794b`)

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. **Kroger and Nuro Launch Autonomous Delivery Service in Houston** · https://ir.kroger.com/news/news-details/2019/Kroger-and-Nuro-Launch-Autonomous-Delivery-Service-in-Houston/default.aspx · 2019-03-14
2. **Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers** · https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/nuro-pivots-to-license-self-driving-tech-to-carmakers-mobility-companies/ · 2024-09-11

## Common questions

### What is the Nuro Autonomous Prius deployment at Houston?

Nuro Autonomous Prius, built by Nuro, is recorded as a deployment at Houston on the DEPLOY registry. Nuro operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Nuro Autonomous Prius at Houston?

Nuro, the manufacturer of Nuro Autonomous Prius, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### Is the Nuro Autonomous Prius deployment at Houston still active?

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is no longer operating at this location.

### Have there been incidents at the Nuro Autonomous Prius deployment at Houston?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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