Uber will deploy 500 sensor vehicles to build robotaxi training data

Uber's AV Labs division plans to deploy 500 specially equipped Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles globally this year to collect high-fidelity driving data for autonomous-vehicle partners including Avride, Waymo, and WeRide. The cars use 14 cameras, eight solid-state lidar sensors, nine radars, and Nvidia's Dual Drive Thor computer, with Roush Performance handling retrofits. Uber says the fleet should collect about two million miles of data per month, with 50 vehicles expected on the road by summer. The company has already gathered outward-facing camera data from thousands of partner-operated vehicles in dozens of cities. This is a material physical-AI story because Uber is positioning its global mobility network as shared training-data infrastructure for more than 30 AV partners rather than rebuilding a single proprietary robotaxi stack.

Key details: June 3, 2026, 500 Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles, 2M data miles per month, 14 cameras, 8 lidar sensors, 9 radars, 30-plus AV partners.

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