Giant Amazon and Years Building

nuro: We've spent the last 2 years building an amazing team, launching our first unmanned service, working with incredible partners and creating technology to fundamentally improve our daily lives, Nuro co-founder Dave Ferguson said in a release, according to The Japan Times. This partnership gives us the opportunity to take the next step in realizing our vision for local commerce and the broad application of our technology. The 940 million in financing from Soft Bank brought the total amount of funding raised by Nuro to more than 1 billion, with investors including Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital, the company said Monday. ; The move comes amid surging interest in robotic delivery among companies ranging from small startups to retail giant Amazon. Last year, Nuro which includes team members who came from Google, Waymo, Apple, Uber, Tesla and General Motors began testing its boxy, driverless delivery vehicles in Arizona in a partnership with the large grocery store chain Kroger. Nuro's world-class team has successfully scaled their self-driving technology out of the lab and into the streets, Soft Bank Investment Advisers managing partner Michael Ronen said in the release. The service lets people place online orders and have them delivered by the robotic vehicles, which operate independently by are followed to make sure all goes to plan. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.