Bolt just added NVIDIA’s full AI stack to its robotaxi blueprint — as Europe’s most ambitious autonomous driving play is taking shape.
Estonia is no longer just a land of humble startups, as its premier companies are scaling ambitions. This week, Tallinn-based mobility giant Bolt announced that it will partner with NVIDIA to develop an AI-powered platform for autonomous vehicles tailored specifically to European roads.
The collaboration pairs Bolt’s vast amounts of real-world driving data — collected daily across its ride-hailing, carsharing, micromobility and delivery operations in 50+ countries and 850+ cities — with NVIDIA’s latest autonomous driving stack.
At its core is NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, a hardware and sensor platform combining lidar, cameras and radar, running on dual DRIVE AGX Thor processors and NVIDIA’s safety-certified DriveOS operating system. The goal is a robotaxi service capable of Level 4 autonomy, meaning the vehicle can handle all driving tasks without human intervention in defined conditions.
What Bolt adds to its ambitions
On the software side, Bolt will use three NVIDIA tools: Cosmos, a world foundation model for generating and augmenting synthetic training data; Omniverse NuRec, which reconstructs high-fidelity 3D scenes from driving logs; and Alpamayo, NVIDIA’s AV foundation model for behavioural learning across varied traffic environments — critical given how significantly road norms differ between, say, Tallinn, Warsaw and Lisbon.
The project will be done with a strict adherence to EU norms: all fleet data will be processed under GDPR-compliant, privacy-preserving mechanisms, and the initiative will open-source tooling, benchmarks and reference implementations to support European SMEs and universities.
For Bolt, this is not the first step in the driverless future’s direction. Back in November 2025, it announced a partnership with Chinese autonomous driving specialist Pony.ai to integrate Level 4 autonomous driving technology into its ride-hailing network. The companies said they would focus first on real-world testing, safety assessments and user experience design before rolling out fully driverless services, with early deployments expected in cities across EU member states and other European markets. The company has also collaborated with Stellantis on autonomous mobility projects.
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