Jiajun Zhu
朱佳俊
Jiajun Zhu is the co-founder of Nuro, an autonomous delivery company he started with Dave Ferguson in 2016 after serving as a lead engineer on Google's self-driving team . Under his leadership, Nuro moved quickly from concept to commercial operation: it unveiled a Level 4 autonomous delivery vehicle in January 2018 and, later that year, launched what was described as the world's first driverless delivery service for the general public with Kroger in Arizona . The company has since raised multiple funding rounds, including a $600 million Series D in 2021, with Gaorong Ventures backing it from the first round . More recently, Zhu has positioned Nuro as a platform supplier rather than only an operator — in July 2025, Uber announced it would deploy over 20,000 robotaxis using Nuro's fourth-generation "Nuro Driver" system starting in 2026, a partnership that also involves Lucid Motors .
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