Rivian and Uber have announced a partnership to deploy 10,000 fully autonomous R2 robotaxis in the first phase of R2 robotaxi deployment. Initial deployments are expected to begin in San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian through 2031, subject to the achievement of certain milestones. The goal is to build a fleet of autonomous Rivian R2 robotaxis, which will be available exclusively through the Uber platform. The companies hope to deploy thousands of unsupervised Rivian R2 robotaxis across 25 cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by the end of 2031.by the end of 2031.
In December 2025, Rivian announced its third-generation autonomy platform, which includes a multi-modal sensor suite including 11 cameras (65 megapixels), 5 radars and 1 LiDAR. The consumer platform is driven by two of Rivian’s in-house RAP1 chips, capable of 1600 TOPS of AI computing performance.
“This partnership with Uber will help accelerate our path to level 4 autonomy to create one of the safest and most convenient autonomous platforms in the world,” said RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of Rivian. “The scale of Rivian’s growing data flywheel, coupled with RAP1, our state-of-the-art in-house inference platform, and our multimodal perception platform make us excited for the rapid advancement of Rivian autonomy over the next couple of years.”
“We’re big believers in Rivian’s approach—designing the vehicle, compute platform and software stack together, while maintaining end-to-end control of scaled manufacturing and supply in the US,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber. “That vertical integration, combined with data from their growing consumer vehicle base and experience managing the complexities of commercial fleets, gives us conviction to set these ambitious but achievable targets.”
Source: Rivian
