Registry/Robotaxis
Category
Robotaxis
Passenger-side autonomous vehicles operating under NHTSA + state-DMV regulation.
Robotaxis are passenger-side autonomous vehicles, distinct from autonomous trucks (FMCSA freight regime, tracked separately at /trucks). DEPLOY treats this category with full editorial depth: every active commercial deployment carries a verifiable named-city operating record. Incident records carry NHTSA citations where applicable; the verified-vs-claimed framework reads ride counts, incident response time, and operator-disclosed safety drivers.
Featured deployments
Waymo San Francisco
The canonical robotaxi-at-scale deployment in 2026. From August 2023 commercial permit through May 2026, Waymo SF grew to 800+ Bay Area vehicles, 24/7 service, freeway operation, and a ~500,000 weekly-rides total across the program.
Tesla Robotaxi Austin
The most-watched and most-claimed-about robotaxi deployment in the United States, launched June 22, 2025. The canonical reference for what verified-vs-claimed means as a discipline applied to physical-AI deployment data.
Apollo Go Wuhan
The largest single-city robotaxi deployment in the world (1,000+ vehicles, 24/7 fully driverless), and the site of the first publicly-documented fleet-wide system failure in a commercial robotaxi service (March 31, 2026). Scale and failure modes, both at full operational visibility.
Guides & answers
All answers →Start here: verified answers on robotaxis.
- Where can you actually ride a robotaxi in 2026?Where can you actually ride a robotaxi in 2026?
- Robotaxi safety record: every recall, crash, and investigationHow safe are robotaxis? Every recall and crash tracked.
- How many people have robots killed?How many people have robots killed?
- What happened to Cruise?What happened to Cruise robotaxi?
- Are robotaxis safe?The plain-language read on how robotaxi safety verifies per operator.
- Where does Waymo operate?Every city where Waymo runs a public robotaxi service.
- Verified robotaxisOperators running a real public service, by city.
- Waymo vs CruiseHow the two flagship robotaxi programs diverged.
Companies (35)
View all →Featured by funding.
- Waymo
Mountain View, CA · $27.0B
- Nuro
Mountain View, CA · $2.3B
- Pony AI
Guangzhou, China · $1.3B
- Zoox
Foster City, California, USA · $1.2B
- Momenta Global
Suzhou, China · $752M
- Motional
Boston, Massachusetts, USA · $550M
- Didi Autonomous Driving
Beijing, China · $281M
- Autobrains Technologies
Tel Aviv, Israel · $120M
- AutoX
Shenzhen, China · $100M
- EasyMile
Toulouse, France · $55M
- SafeAI
Sunnyvale, CA · $26M
- Argo AI
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Models (41)
View all →Waymo(2)
- Ojaiby Waymocommercial
- Waymo Driver (6th gen)by Waymocommercial
Tesla(2)
- Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y ADS)by Teslapilot
- Cybercabby Teslaresearch
Cruise(2)
- Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt)by Cruisecommercial
- Cruise Originby Cruisepilot
Zoox(1)
- Zoox Robotaxiby Zooxpilot
Baidu (Apollo Go)(1)
- Apollo RT6by Baiducommercial
Pony AI(1)
- Pony Gen-7 Robotaxiby Pony AIcommercial
WeRide(1)
- Robotaxi GXRby WeRidecommercial
Motional(1)
May Mobility(1)
- May Mobility Autonomous Siennaby May Mobilitycommercial
Aurora(1)
- Aurora Driverby Aurora Innovationcommercial
Others(23)
- Momenta Robotaxiby Momenta Globalproduction
- Auroraby Loramcommercial
- AutoX RoboTaxiby AutoXcommercial
- EZ10by EasyMilecommercial
- EZ10by EasyMilecommercial
Verified deployments (122)
View all →- Argo AI Self-Driving System at Hamburgby Argo AIended
- Argo AI Self-Driving System at Munichby Argo AIended
- Argo AI Self-Driving System at Washington, D.C.by Argo AIended
- Argo AI Self-Driving System at Austinby Argo AIended
- Argo AI Self-Driving System at Miamiby Argo AIended
- Nuro Autonomous Prius at Houstonby Nuroended
- Nuro R2 at Houstonby Nuroended
- Nuro R2 at Houstonby Nuroended
- Nuro Autonomous Prius at Scottsdale, Arizonaby Nuroended
- Nuro Autonomous Prius at Houstonby Nuroended
- Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) at Miamiby Cruiseended
- Cruise AV (Chevrolet Bolt) at Dallasby Cruiseended
Brain stacks (13)
View all →- Apollo ADFM (Baidu)foundation-model · commercial
- Aurora Driverfoundation-model · commercial
- Avride ADSfoundation-model · pilot
- Gatik Driverfoundation-model · commercial
- Mobileye Driveos-layer · pilot
- Nuro Driverfoundation-model · pilot
- Plus SuperDrivefoundation-model · pilot
- PonyWorld (Pony.ai Virtual Driver)world-model · commercial
- Tesla FSD-Botfoundation-model · pilot
- VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)foundation-model · pilot · open
- Waymo Driverfoundation-model · commercial
- WeRide Onefoundation-model · commercial
Regulations (46)
View all →- California AB 1777 requires driverless vehicles to support first responder communication and emergency geofencingCalifornia · operational restriction
- Saudi Arabia Technical Regulations for Autonomous VehiclesSaudi Arabia · other
- Abu Dhabi autonomous-vehicle permit regimeAbu Dhabi · other
- ANSI/CAN/UL 3300:2024 - Safety for service, communication, information, education and entertainment (SCIEE) robotsUnited States · safety standard
- Beijing Autonomous Vehicle RegulationsBeijing, China · other
- Switzerland Automated Driving Ordinance (VAF, SR 2025/50)Switzerland · other
- ISO 10218-2:2025 - Robotics - Safety requirements - Part 2: Industrial robot applications and cellsGlobal · safety standard
- ISO 10218-1:2025 - Robotics - Safety requirements - Part 1: Industrial robotsGlobal · safety standard
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689)European Union · other
- UK Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (c. 10)United Kingdom · other
- ISO 18497:2024 - Safety of partially automated, semi-autonomous and autonomous agricultural machineryGlobal · safety standard
- China national intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) frameworkChina · other
Incidents (38)
View all →- NHTSA demands AV developers stop driverless vehicles from interfering with first respondersregulatory_action · 2026-07-08
- Waymo recalls 3,871 5th-gen ADS vehicles over freeway construction zone detection failurerecall · 2026-06-17
- Waymo suspended Atlanta robotaxi service after a robotaxi was stuck amid flooding (May 2026)malfunction · 2026-05-21
- Waymo temporarily suspended freeway robotaxi service in four cities to improve construction-zone performance (May 2026)other · 2026-05-21
- Waymo issued a software recall and halted San Antonio service over robotaxis driving into floods (May 2026)recall · 2026-05-14
- Waymo recalls 3,791 5th/6th-gen ADS vehicles over flooded roadway detection failurerecall · 2026-05-06
- NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after 16 robotaxi crashes in Dallas and Austinregulatory_action · 2026-05-06
- China suspended new robotaxi/AV permits nationwide after the Apollo Go Wuhan outageregulatory_action · 2026-04-29
- Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan stranded passengers in service-wide malfunctionmalfunction · 2026-03-31
- Tesla robotaxis logged 17 NHTSA-reported incidents in Austin, including two teleoperator-caused crashescollision · 2026-03-01
- Zoox robotaxi struck an opening car door in San Francisco, injuring a street ambassadorinjury · 2026-01-17
- Zoox recalled 332 robotaxis over unnecessary lane-crossings near intersectionsrecall · 2025-12-23
Robotaxis on the deployment map
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