Mercedes Benz said last week that it is initiating a new era of automated driving by accelerating the development of a robotaxi ecosystem. Mercedes-Benz has chosen the new S Class as the ideal vehicle, combining luxury, safety and cutting-edge technology. The top model allegedly allows fail-safe operation, with redundancies for steering, braking, computing and power supply and, with MB.OS. It will be used for a driverless shuttle service in America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

“Mercedes Benz and NVIDIA are collaborating to create a robotaxi ecosystem together with Uber based on the new S Class. NVIDIA will implement its NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture and full stack NVIDIA DRIVE AV L4 software. It will further be enhanced by NVIDIA Alpamayo open AI models, simulation tools and datasets to bring reasoning based, safety first autonomy to the platform. Mercedes Benz and NVIDIA have a strong collaboration in the field of automated driving development, with NVIDIA’s expertise in AI-based software development being used for Mercedes’ new generation of ADAS-systems,” Mercedes said.

At the end of 2025, the carmaker announced another L4 project in cooperation with Momenta to develop a Robotaxi experience based on the new S Class. The mobility provider Lumo – a subsidiary of the technology company K2 – plans to operate the shuttles initially in Abu Dhabi with the option for more locations later. The first S Class robotaxi test vehicles will be deployed on the roads in Abu Dhabi later this year.”