Robot maker · registered
Zoox
Zoox designed a purpose-built, fully autonomous, bidirectional, all-electric robotaxi from the ground up; no steering wheel, no pedals, subway-style doors; optimised exclusively for ride-hailing in dense urban environments. The L4/L5 autonomy stack fuses LiDAR, radar, and cameras through a proprietary in-house perception-prediction-planning pipeline developed over a decade; in August 2025 NHTSA granted the vehicle the first-ever federal exemption for a production driverless vehicle. Commercial service launched in Las Vegas in September 2025 and has since expanded to San Francisco, Austin, Miami, and multiple testing cities; the fleet completed more than 350,000 passenger trips and nearly 2 million autonomous miles by early 2026. Zoox was acquired by Amazon in June 2020 and operates as a subsidiary.
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Zoox Robotaxi
- Bidirectional all-electric L4/L5 driverless vehicle; up to 16 hours operation per charge; top speed 75 mph; first production vehicle to receive NHTSA driverless exemption (Aug 2025)
Purpose-built symmetric autonomous robotaxi without steering wheel or pedals; NHTSA AV exemption granted 6 Aug 2025
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Acquisition
Round sourceSeries C
Round sourceSeries B
Grok Ventures, Primavera Capital Group, Lux Capital
Round sourceForm D
Investors undisclosed
Round sourceSeries A
Lux Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Round sourceSeed
Lux Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Round sourceHiring signal
Public job board · 2026-07-13
Hiring is an operating signal, not deployment evidence. Roles are refreshed from the company’s public careers system.
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