Uber Launches An ‘AV Labs’ Division To Gather Driving Data For Robotaxi Partners
Uber AV Labs launches to collect real-world driving data for autonomous partners, pivoting from hardware to data infrastructure.
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Uber Launches An ‘AV Labs’ Division To Gather Driving Data For Robotaxi Partners
Uber AV Labs Launches Data Collection for Robotaxis Uber AV Labs is a new division focused exclusively on gathering real-world driving data to accelerate autonomous vehicle development—not building robotaxis itself. The company will deploy sensor-equipped vehicles across major cities to capture nuanced driving scenarios for partners including Waymo, Waabi, and Lucid Motors. This strategic pivot comes as the industry shifts toward reinforcement learning systems that require massive volumes of diverse driving data to solve rare edge cases safely. Uber maintains it has no plans to resurrect its own self-driving car program after selling that division to Aurora in 2020. Credit: Waymo/Uber From Hardware Ambitions to Data Infrastructure Just eight years ago, Uber's autonomous vehicle program ended in tragedy when a test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The incident triggered regulatory scrutiny, internal restructuring, and ultimately the sale of Uber's Advanced …
