New Delhi, July 17 -- Uber Technologies on Thursday announced that it has tied up with electric vehicle maker Lucid Group and self-driving tech startup Nuro to launch robotaxis in 2026.

The ride-sharing company or its third-party partners will buy and operate Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted with Nuro Driver technology on its network.

It aims to launch its first robotaxi in 2026 and plans to deploy at least 20,000 of the vehicles over the next six years.

Uber also announced that it is making separate multi-hundred-million-dollar investments in both Lucid and Nuro.

The funding will include $300 million for Lucid that will be used in part to upgrade its assembly line to integrate Nuro hardware into the Gravity vehicles.

After the announcem...