Uber has a pitch for autonomous vehicle makers: we got this. The ride-hailing and food delivery company has launched a new division called Uber Autonomous Solutions designed to take on all the tasks associated with operating a robotaxi, self-driving truck, or sidewalk delivery robot business, including software and support services. The initiative, announced Monday, formalizes what Uber has been not so quietly working on for several years now. Uber has amassed partnerships with nearly two dozen autonomous vehicle technology companies across every use case, from robotaxis and trucking to sidewalk delivery robots and drones. Uber has backed many of these companies — Lucid and Nuro, Waabi, and China’s WeRide — invested $100 million to build fast-charging, autonomous-vehicle charging stations, and even launched Uber AV Labs, a specialized engineering team that will gather data for robotaxi partners. Uber has made the partnerships and investments; now it wants to make itself indispensable.…