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Tue, February 10, 2026 astatine 10:22 AM CST 1 min read
Feb 10 (Reuters) - Uber and Baidu said connected Tuesday they would motorboat autonomous ride-hailing services successful Dubai successful the coming month, the latest measurement successful the Chinese tech firm's propulsion toward planetary expansion.
The afloat autonomous vehicles volition beryllium disposable on the Uber app crossed prime locations wrong the Jumeirah area, the companies said, adding they would grow further based connected operational advancement and regulatory approvals crossed the city.
The determination builds connected the companies' partnership, announced last year, aimed astatine deploying thousands of Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles connected the Uber level across respective planetary markets extracurricular the U.S. and mainland China.
It is besides a measurement guardant successful Uber's ambitions to vie successful the robotaxi market arsenic tech companies contention to boost commercialized adoption of autonomous vehicles.
Baidu, which has been moving its Apollo Go robotaxi services commercially successful respective Chinese cities since 2022 and present has a planetary footprint of 22 cities, said the work has completed much than 17 cardinal rides arsenic of October.
The company besides has a tie-up with Lyft to deploy robotaxis crossed Europe. In December, Baidu teamed up with Uber and Lyft to motorboat trials for its driverless taxi services in the UK this year.
Baidu said connected Tuesday passengers volition person the enactment to beryllium matched with an Apollo Go conveyance erstwhile booking an Uber Comfort oregon UberX taxi, oregon by selecting the "Autonomous" enactment in the Uber app.
(Reporting by Deborah Sophia successful Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
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