Philadelphia Woman Arrested for Blocking Uber Robot
Police arrested a retired Penn professor, 78, for blocking an Uber Eats robot in Philadelphia. She calls it protest and plans to continue.
Read the storyUber
Company — Mobility and delivery platform connecting riders, drivers, merchants and autonomous-vehicle partners. Coverage follows AI, robotaxis and the economics of autonomous mobility.
Follow Uber
Explore the coverage Get AI Secret’s free daily briefing, including Uber and the wider AI industry.
At a glance
Uber operates a platform for mobility, delivery and logistics. Its role in AI spans matching and marketplace systems, autonomous-vehicle partnerships and robotics. Coverage focuses on how Uber connects autonomous-driving developers with riders and commercial operations.
- Business
- Mobility; delivery; logistics
- AI focus
- Autonomous mobility; delivery robots; marketplace systems
- Products
- Uber; Uber Eats; Uber Freight
- Reference
- Uber ↗
Reviewed 19 October 2026. Dates retain the precision of the source; retrospective disclosures are identified in the event. Gross bookings and platform users are not revenue or autonomous-ride revenue.
Company milestones
Revenue, funding, product launches and major company events, newest first. Expand the earlier milestones for more history.
Launches supervised autonomous rides with Wayve in London
Uber and Wayve begin offering public rides in London using the Wayve AI Driver, with a trained, licensed driver onboard during the initial phase.
Source: Uber ↗Q2 revenue reaches $14.19B
Uber reports $58.02B in gross bookings and 208M monthly active platform consumers. Bookings are transaction value, not Uber revenue.
Source: Uber
Show earlier milestonesHide earlier milestones2026–2010 · 8 milestones
Earlier revenue, financing and company milestones.
Introduces AV Labs
Uber creates a team focused on real-world driving data, machine learning and validation capabilities to support autonomous-vehicle partners.
Source: Uber ↗2025 revenue reaches $52.02B
Annual revenue rises from $43.98B in 2024. The result covers the group’s mobility, delivery and freight businesses, not only autonomous rides.
Source: UberLaunches Waymo rides on Uber in Austin
Austin riders can be matched with fully autonomous Waymo vehicles through the Uber app, initially across a 37-square-mile service area.
Source: Uber ↗Announces expanded Waymo partnership
Uber reports an agreement to bring Waymo autonomous rides to Austin and Atlanta through its app in 2025.
Source: Uber ↗Records its first GAAP operating profit
Second-quarter operating profit reaches $326M, alongside more than $1B in quarterly free cash flow. Operating profit is distinct from net income.
Source: UberAgrees to transfer ATG to Aurora
Uber announces the sale of its self-driving development unit and a strategic partnership with Aurora, shifting toward an autonomous-platform partnership model.
Source: UberStarts trading on the NYSE
The IPO is priced on May 9 and shares begin trading under UBER the following day.
Source: UberUber is formally established
Uber’s history dates its original idea to 2009 and its formal establishment in San Francisco to June 2010.
Source: Uber
The latest on Uber
Newest firstRelated reporting
Briefs, articles and relevant sections, newest first. Explore older coverage below.
More coverage
6 min read · Members
Google Crowned Itself the GOAT
Plus: 57 Cybercabs a Day, McDonald's Is Shaking Down Franchisees
6 min read · Members
The First Real AI Nuclear
Plus: Quantum AI Layer, Stanford Used Broken Benchmarks
