By Zacks Equity Research
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 15:02:00
Mercedes-Benz Group AG MBGYY, NVIDIA Corporation NVDA and Uber Technologies, Inc. UBER are advancing plans to roll out robotaxi services in major cities, centered on Mercedes’ S-Class sedan. The collaboration, launched last year, is focused on building a global autonomous-driving platform.
The next-generation S-Class running Mercedes-Benz’s MB.OS will integrate NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion hardware along with the full-stack NVIDIA DRIVE AV Level 4 software. The setup is designed to support future robotaxi deployments, emphasizing safety-first autonomy through NVIDIA’s Halos system and parallel AI-based and classical driving stacks to ensure dependable performance.
The S-Class is positioned to deliver a premium, chauffeur-style autonomous experience. Under NVIDIA’s previously announced partnership with Uber, the companies plan to offer these autonomous vehicles to passengers via Uber’s mobility network.
The initiative highlights how established automakers and AI leaders can collaborate to produce vehicles that are safer, smarter and more autonomous while maintaining high quality and safety standards.
NVIDIA DRIVE AV equips the new S-Class with a full-stack automated-driving system capable of addressing rare and complex driving scenarios within a safety-centric architecture. The system is trained at scale on NVIDIA DGX platforms and validated through high-fidelity simulations using NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec libraries and Cosmos world models.
Built on NVIDIA’s broader AI…
