A Nuro unmanned delivery vehicle stocked with Domino’s pizza. Image: Nuro

Nuro — a company making driverless delivery vehicles that’s backed by more than $1 billion in funding, including a $940 million round led earlier this year by the Softbank Vision Fund — has partnered with popular pizza franchise Domino’s to deliver pizza to customers with its self-driving vehicles. A pilot program will kick off in Houston, Texas — where Nuro already delivers groceries — to deliver pizza to some customers.

The customers who will receive orders from Nuro’s autonomous vehicles are those that order from one of Domino’s participating stores. Once they order, customers will be able to track Nuro’s delivery vehicles within the Domino’s app, and will also be provided with a PIN to unlock the vehicle’s compartment — where their pizza is stored — once it reaches their destination.

The name Nuro may be familiar, as it also delivers groceries for Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the U.S. The company, in December, kicked off a pilot grocery delivery program in the state of Arizona.

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