Zoox Self-Driving Car Factory Now Produces 100 Vehicles Per Week

Zoox, an Amazon company, has revamped its autonomous robotaxi for large-scale manufacturing (up to 100 vehicles/week) and already has robotaxis on the Las Vegas streets serving paying customers. Zoox’s latest revision of their self-driving taxi is optimized for production. This is a significant departure from the one-off prototype stage that characterizes many self-driving car projects.

1The vehicle, redesigned for production

Zoox’s robotaxi is unique among its peers. It’s bidirectional; there’s no front or back, and it can drive both ways. There are four seats, each facing another passenger in a custom cabin with no steering wheel or pedals. New features include a bigger, brighter touchscreen, more cup holders, better headrests, and a bi-directional intercom system on the door that lets passengers talk to people outside the car.

New bidirectional reflectors display different colored lights depending on the direction the car is going, helping pedestrians know which way is up when they approach a car without a front end. Inside, the car is all monochromatic aloe green seats and stone grey floors. These consistent, replicable colors are appropriate for a factory producing hundreds of cars but not a design office creating a single prototype.

2What Zoox has actually achieved

Amazon bought Zoox in 2020. In September 2025, they began taking fare-paying customers along the Las Vegas strip, breaking out of the ‘six months from now’ cycle that has plagued self-driving car development for years. As the factory ramps up production, newer vehicles will join the fleet in Las Vegas later this year.

Many companies have raised billions, shown flashy demos, and failed to produce anything of note in the self-driving car industry. With Amazon behind them and their supply chain capabilities, Zoox has a chance to be different. They have a functioning fleet of self-driving taxis and a plan to get there through engineering.

3Physical AI at production scale

In 2026, much of the focus of AI discussions is on chatbots, code helpers, and image synthesizers. Meanwhile, physical AI that interacts with the real world continues to advance, if slower and with much higher risk. Each Zoox car on the Las Vegas strip is an AI agent constantly making real-time decisions about stopping, turning, dealing with the chaos of human drivers on a crowded city street. With 100 vehicles produced each week, the learning accelerates. Every additional vehicle contributes to a growing fleet that learns from experiences that can’t be simulated.