Section29 robots tracked
Self-driving vehicles
Robotaxis you can ride today, driverless trucks, and cars that drive themselves on the highway. Where each runs, whether anyone is aboard, and what regulators have allowed.
21 of 29 have paying customers or regulator clearance. The rest are pilots, pre-orders or demos.
01How far each has got
From demo to everyday
Each robot sits on the same five-step ladder, worked out from dated, sourced milestones. A stage says how far it has got, not how good it is.
- 1Demo only
- 2Pre-orders
- None yet
- 3Pilot
- 4Paying customers
- 5Regulator-cleared or mass market
02Every robot
The full list
Furthest along first. Open any robot for its track record, the maker's promises and every source.
- Apollo GoBaidu · Robotaxi serviceDriverless paid rides in Chinese cities including Wuhan and Chongqing, and in Abu Dhabi and Dubai; testing in Hong Kong, London and Switzerland.
- CruiseGeneral Motors (Cruise) · Robotaxi service (closed)Cruise cut nearly half of its staff. GM took full ownership and moved the work toward self-driving tech for personal cars.
- Einride autonomous podsEinride · Cab-less electric freight truckTwo cab-less trucks move freight daily for EASE Logistics in Marysville, Ohio, on its sites and local public roads (since October 2026). Earlier small deployments in Sweden and the US.
- FSD (Supervised)Tesla · Driver-assistance softwareSold to Tesla owners as a $99-a-month subscription in the US since February 2026; about 1.48 million active subscriptions in mid-2026 (Tesla-reported).
- GatikGatik AI · Driverless delivery box trucksDriverless trucks working in Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and Canada (Ontario).
- MomentaMomenta · Driver-assist and robotaxi softwareRobotaxi testing or early service in six cities in three countries, including a driverless trial licence in Shanghai's Pudong district; Abu Dhabi and Munich (with Uber) planned.
- Pony.ai RobotaxiPony.ai · Robotaxi serviceDriverless paid rides in parts of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, plus other Chinese cities; rides in Singapore through ComfortDelGro's Zig app; test rides in Zagreb.
- Super CruiseGeneral Motors · Hands-free driver assistOffered on more than 20 GM models (Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC and others) in North America, on compatible roads.
- WaymoWaymo (Alphabet) · Robotaxi serviceDriverless rides for the public in 15 US metros, including Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Nashville and Las Vegas. Denver, San Diego and Tampa opened in September 2026 to invited riders first.
- WeRide RobotaxiWeRide · Robotaxi serviceDriverless paid rides in Abu Dhabi and Dubai through Uber; driverless service areas in Beijing and Guangzhou; a driverless permit in Zurich.
- Zoox robotaxiZoox (Amazon) · Purpose-built robotaxiPaid driverless rides in Las Vegas since 10 August 2026, including to Harry Reid airport since 3 September 2026. Free rides in San Francisco, where Zoox still lacks the state permits to charge.
- Aurora DriverAurora Innovation · Driverless heavy trucksDriverless freight runs between Dallas and Houston, Fort Worth and El Paso, El Paso and Phoenix, Fort Worth and Phoenix, and Dallas and Laredo.
- Avride robotaxiAvride (Nebius Group) · Robotaxi servicePaid rides on the Uber app in Dallas, at the same price as rides with a human driver.
- Beep autonomous shuttlesBeep · Self-driving public shuttlePublic driverless shuttle NAVI in downtown Jacksonville, Florida (since June 2025); ATL Spoke pilot in Atlanta (since June 2026); invited riders in ID. Buzz vans in Lake Nona, Orlando (2026).
- CybercabTesla · Two-seat robotaxi carRides through Tesla's Robotaxi app in Austin, Texas, only.
- Drive PilotMercedes-Benz · Eyes-off highway drivingOwners' S-Class and EQS cars on approved highways in California and Nevada, and in Germany. Mercedes left it out of the updated S-Class and EQS in 2026.
- Kodiak DriverKodiak AI (Kodiak Robotics) · Driverless heavy trucksDriverless trucks with no one in the cab in commercial work in Texas; highway freight between Dallas and Laredo, and in California under a state DMV permit, with driverless highway runs planned from Dallas to Houston.
- May MobilityMay Mobility · Self-driving minivan serviceRides on the Lyft app in Atlanta, and public shuttle-style services in Grand Rapids and Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
- Self-driving wheelchairsWHILL, LUCI · Autonomous wheelchairWHILL runs its self-driving wheelchair service at more than 25 airports and other sites, including Tokyo Haneda, Singapore Changi, Paris-Orly and Anchorage in Alaska. It says riders have taken more than 1 million trips.
- Tesla RobotaxiTesla · Robotaxi servicePaid rides in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, plus the San Francisco Bay Area with a safety driver. Phoenix and Las Vegas are being prepared.
- Wayve AI DriverWayve · Self-driving softwareSupervised robotaxi rides in London booked on Uber, with a safety driver aboard, since 3 September 2026.
- Argo AIArgo AI (backed by Ford and Volkswagen) · Self-driving car developer (closed)Ford and Volkswagen shut Argo AI down. Ford took a $2.7 billion write-off on its stake.
- ID. Buzz AD (MOIA)MOIA (Volkswagen) · Self-driving robotaxi vanFree test rides for selected registered residents in Hamburg (since July 2026), and testing with Uber in Los Angeles (since April 2026). No paid driverless service yet.
- Mobileye DriveMobileye · Driverless system for robotaxisTesting with safety drivers, including public rider testing with MOIA in Hamburg (2026). No driverless paid service yet.
- Motional robotaxiMotional (Hyundai) · Robotaxi serviceRides through the Uber app in five areas of Las Vegas, since 13 March 2026, with a safety monitor aboard.
- Nuro DriverNuro · Self-driving softwareTesting only, not open to the public: rides for select Uber employees in the San Francisco Bay Area, and round-the-clock road testing in Houston, both with safety operators.
- PlusAI SuperDrivePlusAI (Plus) · Self-driving truck softwareA self-driving truck trial in Texas with truck maker International and Ryder.
- Waabi DriverWaabi · Self-driving semi trucksSelf-driving freight runs for customers between Dallas and Houston, Texas, with an observer in the driver's seat.
- Torc driverless trucksTorc Robotics (Daimler Truck) · Self-driving semi-truckTest trucks with a safety driver on public roads in Virginia, New Mexico and Texas (and Michigan since 2026). No paid driverless freight yet.
