Oct 3, 2024 · Uber expanded its cohort of autonomous vehicle partners today with the addition of Avride, formerly known as Yandex Self-Driving Group. The companies signed a “multiyear” agreement in which...

Oct 3, 2024 · Uber is not done snatching up autonomous vehicle partnerships. The ride-hail and delivery giant on Thursday announced a multi-year deal with Yandex spinout Avride to bring the company’s...

Avride focuses on a "universal driver" designed to operate in various conditions around the world, as well as on different platforms. The company's portfolio currently includes two autonomous products: autonomous cars and delivery robots.

In February 2018, Yandex acquired Uber's businesses in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and Georgia. [ 14 ] In August 2021, Yandex acquired Uber 's stake its self-driving car division and food delivery business in a $1 billion transaction.

Oct 4, 2024 · Uber to Offer Even More Self-Driving Taxis, Delivery Robots. Partnership with Avride will kick off within weeks in Austin, where sidewalk delivery robots will fulfil food orders placed via Uber Eats

Oct 3, 2024 · Uber has entered a new deal to offer customers in select cities an option for self-driving vehicles. The partnership is with Avride, which used to be the self-driving unit for Russian...

Oct 30, 2024 · Avride has been working on autonomous delivery robots since 2019. It began as part of Russian tech company Yandex’s autonomous driving wing. But the spun-off company divested its Russian assets...

Sep 9, 2020 · Russian tech giant Yandex has announced plans to spin off its self-driving vehicle business, currently operated as a joint venture with Uber. Yandex, best known for its eponymous search engine, started a ride-hailing service way back in 2011.

Sep 4, 2020 · Yandex — the publicly traded Russian tech giant that started as a search engine but has expanded into a number of other, related areas (similar to U.S. counterpart Google) — today announced that...

Moscow, Amsterdam, August 31, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe's largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, announces that it has entered into a binding agreement with Uber to restructure the ownership of their joint ventures, MLU B.V. (“MLU”) and Yandex Self-Driving B.V ...