NVIDIA and Bolt team up for European robotaxis
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA and Bolt announced what they hope will be a symbiotic partnership. Bolt benefits from NVIDIA technology that would be expensive and impractical to build on its own. Meanwhile, NVIDIA gains not only a major customer, but also access to the European ride-hailing company’s driving data.
Bolt says its fleet data will help create a “learning engine” for autonomous vehicles (AVs) using NVIDIA technology. The ride-hailing company will use NVIDIA Cosmos to organize and search driving data. It will leverage NVIDIA Omniverse to reconstruct digital twins of real-world driving logs, then use Cosmos again to generate and augment the data at scale.
NVIDIA’s Alpamayo model, designed specifically for AVs, will help AI learn to drive safely and appropriately in European cities. Finally, Bolt will integrate NVIDIA’s Drive Hyperion platform into its AVs.
“Autonomous vehicles require a comprehensive approach that unifies AI models, high-performance computing and robust sensor architecture,” said Philippe Van Den Berge, vice president of automotive, NVIDIA EMEA. “By combining Bolt’s real-world operational data with the NVIDIA Drive Hyperion platform, AI infrastructure and open models and libraries across Omniverse, Cosmos and Alpamayo, we are establishing a scalable foundation for safe and efficient autonomous mobility services, designed for the complexity and diversity of European roads.
Bolt has been busy preparing for a self-sustaining future. At the end of 2025, it announced partnerships with Pony.ai and Stellantis.
The companies haven’t announced a timeline for when we can expect to see the NVIDIA-powered Bolt robotaxis in European cities. However, they promise that Bolt’s fleet data will be GDPR compliant. They also claim that they will provide open source access to European universities and small and medium-sized businesses.
