The Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle company, Zoox, has opened its first complete production facility, which hopes one day to build 10,000 robotaxes a year.
The installation sets the last step in the evolution of zoox outside the development phase. The company is currently trying vehicles In several north -American cities and offering walks to early access participants In Las Vegas. This early program will be extended to San Francisco at the end of this year and Zoox plans to launch public payment tours to Las Vegas this year.
The 220,000 -feet factory is in Hayward, California, near the Zoox city headquarters. This is the second production facility of the company in the area of the bay, which is added to the Fremont nearby assembly warehouse.
Zoox says the new factory will be used for engineering, integration of software and hardware, assembly, storage and tests. Hayward’s production installation will mount the tailor -made zoox -built -built boulevard for various commercial markets, starting with Las Vegas and then in San Francisco. Zoox plans to publish Robotaxi commercial operations in Austin and Miami in the coming years.
The company says that the “single equipment and construction equipment” of the facility can be adapted to different vehicles designs as its robotaxi line expands in the future. The installation will be operated by a combination of workers and human robots. Human workers will manage most of the work, According to zooxIt will be said that robots will be used for specific tasks, such as the application of stickers for the installation of glass and the transport of robotaxi on the assembly line.
Correction: This story was previously mistaken for the current state of the Zoox program and commercial. It has been updated to reflect that the program is in force in Las Vegas And that the payment rides will begin this year.
