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Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.

Federal regulators flagged 16 crashes involving Avride's Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxis between December 2025 and March 2026, citing 'excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability.'

Croatia becomes Europe's first country with a paid commercial robotaxi service, as Verne, Pony.ai, and Uber open Gen-7 autonomous rides to the public in Zagreb.

Select Uber employees in San Francisco can now hail Nuro-equipped Lucid Gravity SUVs through the rideshare app, a critical deployment milestone ahead of a public robotaxi launch planned for later in 2026.

Lucid Group has appointed former Schindler chairman Silvio Napoli as chief executive and secured roughly $1.05 billion in new funding from Saudi Arabia's PIF, Uber, and a public offering, while expanding its robotaxi commitment with Uber to 35,000 vehicles.

Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America and Uber begin testing autonomous ID. Buzz minivans in Los Angeles, targeting commercial robotaxi service by late 2026 and fully driverless operations with 500-plus vehicles by mid-2027.

Uber launched Motional IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas on March 13 and announced a strategic partnership with Amazon-backed Zoox two days earlier, accelerating a multi-partner platform strategy now spanning more than 25 AV companies.

Kalanick rebrands City Storage Systems as Atoms, absorbing CloudKitchens and acquiring autonomous-driving startup Pronto to build purpose-built industrial robots.

UK startup Wayve secures $1.5B from NVIDIA, Microsoft, Uber, and three automakers for its AI foundation model approach to self-driving, just as BMW and Mercedes shelve their in-house Level 3 programs.