Uber announced on Friday another partnership of autonomous vehicles while it takes advantage of its dominant driving and delivery position while relying on partners to provide the autonomous technology that it does not build internally. Today, the lucky startup is the Chinese autonomous firm.
The link occurs one day after Uber added to Ann Arbor, Mayt May May, based in Michigan, to his list of AV collaborators, which also includes Volkswagen, Waymo, Wayve, Weride and many others.
Uber said it would add Momenta Robotaxis to the application from Europe at the beginning of 2026, with safety operators on board.
The CEO of Momenta, Xudong Cao, said that the partnership “completes the key ecosystem necessary to evolve autonomous driving on a global scale.”
The plethora of transactions at the end of Uber – which extend in trucking and delivery – come while the company can expect to face potential competition from Tesla, which plans to launch its first Robotaxi service in Austin this summer. The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, has promised that all Tesla vehicles will be one day – with a simple software update – will turn into fully autonomous vehicles to use for the driver.
Uber once had its own autonomous unit, but sold the division at Aurora Innovation in 2020.
