You can ride an Avride robotaxi in one city, Dallas, and only through the Uber app. Request UberX, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric and you may be matched with an Avride Hyundai Ioniq 5 at no extra cost. When the service launched on December 3, 2025, a specialist sat behind the wheel to monitor each ride, and as of October 19, 2026, neither Uber nor Avride has announced that rides are now fully driverless.
Avride is an Austin-based self-driving company. Besides the robotaxis, it runs small sidewalk robots that deliver food and groceries, which are covered at the end of this guide.
How to get matched with an Avride car
Uber’s launch announcement lays out the process:
- Open the Uber app inside the Dallas service area. To raise your odds, opt in to autonomous rides in the Ride Preferences section under Settings.
- Request an UberX, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric ride. An Avride car is one possible match, not a guaranteed one.
- If you’re matched, the app tells you before pickup. TechCrunch reports you can accept the robotaxi or switch to a human-driven ride.
- When the car arrives, unlock it and start the trip from the Uber app. Human support is available in the app during the ride.
Uber says the fare is the same as a ride with a human driver. There’s no separate Avride price list, so the fare the app shows is the one you pay.
Where in Dallas it runs
At launch the service covered 9 square miles, from Downtown to Uptown, Turtle Creek and Deep Ellum. On September 2, 2026, Avride said it had expanded the area to 31 square miles after passing 100,000 rides on Uber, more than tripling its original size. The company hasn’t published a new boundary map on its own website, so the Uber app’s map is the reliable way to see whether your pickup and drop-off points are covered.
The Dallas Morning News reports that Dallas is the only city where Avride runs robotaxi rides.
Is anyone in the driver’s seat?
Uber’s announcement says an onboard specialist monitors each ride from behind the wheel at launch, and that fully driverless operations will start later. That’s the key difference from Waymo, whose cars carry no one up front. We haven’t found an announcement from Uber or Avride that the specialist has been removed in Dallas. If that changes, it will most likely appear first in Uber’s newsroom or Avride’s social channels.
Who is behind Avride
Avride builds its own lidars, cameras and computing hardware, according to its website, and uses the same self-driving software in its cars and robots. It’s part of the Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based company formed from Yandex’s international businesses. In late 2025, Avride announced up to $375 million in investment and commercial commitments from Uber and Nebius, as reported by Dallas Innovates.
Avride’s delivery robots
The robots are compact four-wheeled couriers, under a meter long, that ride on sidewalks and cross at marked crosswalks. Avride’s robot page lists these specs:
- Top speed: 8 km/h (5 mph)
- Range: 50 km (31 miles) per charge
- Cargo: up to 25 kg (55 lb), enough for six 16.5-inch pizzas
- Operating temperature: -30°C to +55°C, IP66 water resistance
- Fleet: more than 160 robots, with over 200,000 deliveries in five countries
You don’t book a robot directly. If you’re in an area the robots serve, you order through a partner app, and when the robot arrives you unlock its cargo hatch from that app. TechCrunch reports that Uber Eats has used the robots in Austin, Dallas and Jersey City. A remote support team can take over if a robot gets stuck. Businesses can register interest through Avride’s “Hire a robot” form.
Other robotaxis you can ride in the US
For services with different rules and cities, see our guides to Waymo fares and cities, Tesla Robotaxi, Zoox and May Mobility on Lyft.