Maker's videoWayve · 25 Feb 2026
Wayve Secures $1.5B to deploy its global autonomy platform
Against the record
Wayve AI Driver, from Wayve, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Delivered and paid for, beyond pilots. The latest milestone on its record is from 3 Sept 2026: Uber and Wayve opened robotaxi rides to the public in London. A safety driver is still aboard, and fares start the same as normal Uber rides.
This video comes from the maker's own channel, and makers show their robots at their best. The stage above comes from dated public records, not from the video.
From the video's description
This milestone reflects a broader shift toward end-to-end AI as a scalable path to autonomy, aligning leading technology companies, global automakers and mobility partners behind a unified autonomy platform. In 2017, we pioneered AV2.0 when it was widely dismissed. Today, we’ve demonstrated zero-shot autonomy across 500+ cities using a single foundation model, showing autonomy can work everywhere, in every condition, across every type of vehicle. That’s what makes Wayve different. Our Series D funding allows us to scale what already works, bringing embodied AI to personally owned vehicles and robotaxis, at the same time. That’s the future we’re building.
Written by Wayve on YouTube.
