{"id":730969,"date":"2026-06-02T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/uber-picks-munich-for-its-next-robotaxi-push-with-autobrains-and-nvidia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:10:20","slug":"uber-picks-munich-for-its-next-robotaxi-push-with-autobrains-and-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/uber-picks-munich-for-its-next-robotaxi-push-with-autobrains-and-nvidia\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber picks Munich for its next robotaxi push, with Autobrains and Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ride-hailing company is betting that Germany\u2019s automotive heartland, and a less sensor-heavy app<\/a>roach to autonomy, can finally make robotaxis scale in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Munich is about to become a test of a particular theory: that the cheapest way to put a driverless taxi on a European street is to stop building special cars for it. Uber said on Sunday that it will launch a robotaxi programme in the German city alongside Autobrains, an Israeli autonomy firm, with the vehicles running on Nvidia\u2019s DRIVE Hyperion platform.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made at Nvidia\u2019s GTC conference in Taipei, and the deployment is contingent on German regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

The choice of city is not incidental. Munich is the home of BMW and a dense cluster of suppliers, and it offers the mix Uber says it wants: tight inner-city streets, fast ring roads, and what the company politely calls \u201ca thoughtful German regulatory framework.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Germany has had federal rules permitting driverless vehicles in defined operating areas since 2021, which makes it one of the few European markets where a Level 4 service is a paperwork problem rather than a legal impossibility.<\/p>\n

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What is genuinely different here is the autonomy stack. Most robotaxis on the road today, the ones run by\u00a0Waymo\u00a0and its peers, depend on bespoke vehicles bristling with lidar and a single large end-to-end model trained to do everything at once.<\/p>\n

Autobrains is selling the opposite. Its \u201cagentic AI\u201d breaks the driving task into specialised agents, each handling a slice of the problem, running on standard automotive sensors and ordinary automotive-grade compute. The pitch is that this is cheaper to build and easier to drop into any carmaker\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

That last point is the commercial idea Uber keeps returning to. The three companies describe the programme as \u201cOEM-agnostic,\u201d meaning the software is meant to run across different manufacturers\u2019 cars rather than a single custom fleet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAutonomous driving will not scale by relying on a single model to solve every driving scenario,\u201d<\/em> said Igal Raichelgauz, Autobrains\u2019 chief executive and founder. \u201cIt requires systems that can reason, adapt, and make decisions under uncertainty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Uber, which sold its own self-driving unit in 2020, has spent the years since assembling exactly this kind of partnership rather than owning the technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is the same template behind its\u00a0Tokyo pilot with Wayve and Nissan\u00a0and its tie-up with Pony.ai and Verne, whose vehicles became\u00a0Europe\u2019s first commercial robotaxi service\u00a0in Zagreb earlier this year. Sarfraz Maredia, Uber\u2019s global head of autonomous mobility, framed Munich in the same terms: the hard part, he said, \u201cis bringing them into a commercial network where they can reliably serve riders at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several things were left unsaid. The companies named no launch date, no fleet size, and no vehicle. They did not say which carmaker, if any, would supply the cars, nor whether early rides would carry safety operators, as they do in Zagreb.<\/p>\n

The Munich plan also tracks a target Uber flagged last year, when it first signalled an intention to begin self-driving operations in the city, so the announcement firms up a timeline more than it sets a new one.<\/p>\n

Europe has been the continent where robotaxis are announced more often than they are ridden. Munich is now on the list of places where that is supposed to change, pending a regulator\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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