The following was an email sent out to Nuro employees earlier today by our founders Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson. ______________ Dear Nurons, Today we’re announcing the most difficult decision we’ve had to make since we founded Nuro 6 years ago. We are reducing the size of our team by…

Since Nuro’s founding, we set out to build a service that improves lives by giving people better and more affordable access to the things they want and need. Shopping and other errands represent 43% of American vehicle trips and are part of daily life for many, but these errands can…

Every summer, millions of students spend their days in a variety of activities and camps. This is a great opportunity for students of all backgrounds to get exposed to and inspired by new concepts, new environments, and new technologies. …

Ops is where our safety story hits the road. It’s at this stage that we connect our service with our customers and have the chance to prove our safety validations, gaining valuable public trust. We’ll dive into how we operate and maintain our fleet with safety at the top of…

While we remain proud of the technological strides we’ve made since Nuro’s founding, we’re proudest of the exceptional team behind our innovations. That’s why we’re excited for opportunities to recognize the tremendous talent within our own organization. …

We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure we’ve developed a fundamentally safer autonomous vehicle. And we’ve also been diligent about defining what safety actually means so that it’s a quantifiable benchmark we can meet and then improve upon. …

We’ve previously discussed our hardware and the software that pairs with that hardware. Now, we’ll be discussing how systems engineering contributes to our safety approach — and this part of the autonomy story is unique. …

Since day one, Nuro has focused on building a product that delivers an exceptional customer experience. And while our product has been attracting praise for its ability to improve communities, our internal culture has been gathering its own recognition. In fact, it’s a testament to the strength of our culture…

Some of the challenges of deploying autonomous zero-occupant vehicles into the world at scale are obvious, while other problems are equally daunting and less evident. Take, for instance, translating an executive vision into a clear roadmap and milestones for a software organization. That requires someone with both a strong technical…