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World’s first personal self-driving robocar with Level-4 autonomy to debut in Dubai

The Tensor robocar can navigate desert glare, dust, night, fog, and heavy rain. In areas where Level 4 autonomy is not supported, a driver can take the wheel or switch to “assisted driving” mode.

By: Express Web Desk
September 18, 2025 08:09 PM IST

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World's first personal self-driving robocar with Level-4 autonomy to debut in Dubai

The robocar was developed over a decade of proprietary engineering, advanced AI, and ground-up autonomous design. (Photo: Tensor)

Tensor, the American AI and Robocar company, is all set to debut its fully self-driving car, which claims to be the world’s first personally owned Level 4 autonomous vehicle. The Tensor Robocar will debut at Dubai World Congress for Self-Driving Transport, which will be held on September 24 and 25 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

World’s first robocar with Level 4 autonomy

Built by Silicon Valley-based Tensor, the robocar has Level 4 autonomy, which is capable of fully autonomous driving, including handling all driving tasks and complex situations, without requiring human intervention.

“We are excited to bring Tensor to Dubai, a city that embodies innovation and forward thinking. This isn’t a concept—it is the world’s first real personal Robocar,” Amy Luca, chief marketing officer at Tensor, told Khaleej Times.

Tensor robocar can navigate desert glare, dust, night, fog, and heavy rain. (Photo: Tensor)

Tensor robocar has 37 cameras

According to Tensor, the robocar was developed over a decade of proprietary engineering, advanced AI, and ground-up autonomous design.

The car runs on Tensor’s own Foundation Model, a transformer-based AI designed to mimic human driving decisions. It utilises inputs from 37 cameras, five custom lidars, 11 radars, microphones, ultrasonics and water detectors to make Level 4 autonomy possible.

Made for all terrains

According to Tensor, the robocar’s steering wheel folds away and its pedals retract when not in use, which is the world’s first such feature. The Tensor robocar can navigate desert glare, dust, night, fog, and heavy rain. In areas where Level 4 autonomy is not supported, a driver can take the wheel or switch to “assisted driving” mode for a smooth handoff, the company said.

“It is not your average car or EV. It is an agentic robot on wheels,” the company added, which means, Robocar “learns perception, prediction, and planning from vast real-world and simulated datasets”. Agentic AI is a class of artificial intelligence that focuses on autonomous systems that can make decisions and perform tasks with or without human intervention.

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Customer will be able to get their hands on the Tensor Robocar in the second half of 2026.

Dubai’s self-driving target

According to the Dubai World Congress for Self-Driving Transport, Dubai aims to have 1 in every 4 trips in the city to be on self-driving cars by 2030.

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