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Nuro is branching out into robotaxis and personally owned autonomous vehicles

The company that delivers food now wants to deliver humans.

Nuro, the delivery robot company created by veterans of Google’s self-driving car project, is taking the bold — and risky — step to expand its business model to include robotaxis and personally owned autonomous vehicles. “Fast forward eight years, and there are now multiple OEMs who have recently been announcing that they are starting to create these platforms, either for mobility services or for consumer vehicles,” Clare said. Some auto manufacturers are making plans to produce their own Level 4 vehicles for personal use, even as some experts insist that the safety and liability concerns remain too vast to imagine such a possibility.

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