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Caocao Mobility
Caocao Mobility is Geely Holding Group's mobility platform, offering ride-hailing, Robotaxi and corporate travel services.
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Autonomous driving
Autonomous driving technology and related companies, platforms and people.
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Cruise
Cruise was an American autonomous vehicle company founded in 2013 and acquired by General Motors in 2016. It operated robotaxis before suspending driverless operations after a 2023 San Francisco crash; GM ended funding for its robotaxi development in 2024.
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Tesla
Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that entered autonomous mobility with its robotaxi business: it launched paid robotaxi service in Austin, Texas in June 2025, began removing safety drivers from January 2026 and expanded to Houston and Dallas, while its paid rides in the California Bay Area still require a safety driver under state rules.
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DiDi Autonomous Driving
DiDi Autonomous Driving is DiDi's Level 4 autonomous driving company. It was spun off as an independent company in August 2019 with DiDi co-founder Zhang Bo as CEO, and runs robotaxi testing and commercial operations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou under a "mixed dispatch" model.
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Apollo Go
Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Launched on 18 August 2021, it lets riders hail driverless taxis without a safety driver inside designated operating areas and pay as with a normal ride-hailing trip; by July 2026 it operated in 27 cities worldwide and had provided more than 22 million rides.
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Momenta
Momenta (魔门塔), founded in 2016 by Cao Xudong, is an intelligent driving company pursuing a "one flywheel, two legs" strategy that combines mass-production assisted driving (Mpilot) with fully autonomous driving products (MSD). Its customers include BYD, SAIC, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, Honda and GM, and its Robotaxi business works with platforms such as Uber and Grab.
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WeRide
WeRide (文远知行) is an autonomous driving technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Guangzhou. Its products span Robotaxi, Robobus, Robovan, Robosweeper and ADAS; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 (WRD) and in Hong Kong in 2025 (0800.HK).
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T3 Go
T3 Go (T3出行) is a smart mobility platform built by Nanjing Lingxing Technology Co., Ltd., initiated by China FAW, Dongfeng Motor and Changan Automobile with joint investment from Tencent, Alibaba and others. Founded in 2019, it serves close to 200 cities in China and deploys Robotaxi test fleets in Nanjing and Suzhou through an "operations platform plus technology partner" model.
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Xiangdao Mobility
Xiangdao Mobility (享道出行) is a smart mobility platform controlled by SAIC Group (SAIC Motor Corporation). It offers ride-hailing, vehicle leasing, vehicle sales and Robotaxi services; its "Xiangdao Robotaxi" has been operating since 2021, providing Level 4 service in pilot areas of Shanghai and Suzhou in deep cooperation with solution providers such as Momenta.
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Robotaxi
A robotaxi is a taxi service in which an automated driving system performs the entire dynamic driving task: passengers hail the vehicle through a mobile app and pay as for a licensed taxi. Commercial fleets at scale carry no safety driver and operate only within government-permitted areas.
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Han Xu
Han Xu is the founder and chief executive officer of WeRide and an expert in computer vision and machine learning. He was previously chief scientist of Baidu's autonomous driving division and a tenured professor at the University of Missouri, and holds a PhD from the University of Illinois.
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Lou Tiancheng
Lou Tiancheng (born 1986), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is co-founder and chief technology officer of Pony AI. A member of the first cohort of Tsinghua University's Yao Class and a doctoral student of Turing Award laureate Andrew Yao, he competed under the handle "ACRush" and was Baidu's youngest ever T10 engineer.
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Wang Yunpeng
Wang Yunpeng (born March 1976) is Vice President of Baidu Group and head of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG). He joined Baidu in 2012, has led autonomous driving technology since 2018, and led the teams behind the Apollo RT6 robotaxi and the Apollo Go mobility platform.
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Shouqi Yueche
Shouqi Yueche is the ride-hailing platform of Shouqi Group, operated by Shouyue Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. It launched in Beijing in September 2015 and offers mid-to-high-end ride-hailing with licensed vehicles and certified drivers; in 2017 it entered a strategic partnership with Baidu to commercialise Apollo autonomous driving and connected car services on its platform.
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Jiangling Motors
Jiangling Motors Co., Ltd. (JMC) is an automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Focused on commercial vehicles such as light trucks, light buses and pickups, its A and B shares trade in Shenzhen (000550/200550) and Ford Motor Company holds 32% of the company; it has launched Level 4 autonomous driving products and builds vehicles for Baidu's Apollo Go overseas operations.
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Lyft
Lyft, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It connects riders and drivers through a mobile app; its shares began trading on Nasdaq on 29 March 2019 (LYFT), and from 2025 it has worked with Baidu's Apollo Go to deploy robotaxi service in Europe.
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Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its businesses cover ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats) and freight; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 10 May 2019 (UBER) and now runs autonomous mobility through partners on its platform.
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Baidu Apollo
Baidu Apollo is the open autonomous driving platform Baidu released in April 2017 and the brand used by Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG). It covers autonomous driving R&D, an open platform ecosystem and the Apollo Go mobility service.
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Baidu
Baidu is a Chinese internet company founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing in January 2000. Starting as a Chinese-language search engine, it expanded into artificial intelligence and intelligent driving; it listed on Nasdaq on 5 August 2005 (BIDU) and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2021.
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MOGOX
MOGOX (蘑菇车联), founded in 2017, is an autonomous driving company whose core shareholders include Tencent, SF Express, JD.com, CITIC Capital and several state-owned investment platforms. It develops Level 4 autonomous buses (RoboBus) and integrated sensing-communication-computing road digitisation solutions, operating in more than twenty Chinese cities and in Singapore and Europe.
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QCraft
QCraft (轻舟智航), founded in March 2019, is an autonomous driving company whose founding team came from Waymo, Tesla, Nvidia and Facebook, with Yu Qian as CEO. It pursues a dual strategy of L2+ and L4, is headquartered in Beijing, and its assisted driving systems have been installed in more than one million vehicles.
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DeepRoute.ai
DeepRoute.ai (元戎启行) is an AI company founded in 2019 by CEO Dr. Maxwell Zhou, headquartered in Shenzhen. It builds its DeepRoute IO intelligent driving platform and a vision-language-action (VLA) model on end-to-end models, works with automakers such as Great Wall Motor and smart on mass production, and pursues large-scale robotaxi deployment.
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Zoox
Zoox is an autonomous driving company founded in 2014 that became an independently operated subsidiary of Amazon in 2020. Headquartered in Foster City, California, it develops a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel or driver's seat and launched an autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas in 2025.
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OnTime Mobility
OnTime Mobility (如祺出行) is a mobility technology platform launched in Guangzhou in June 2019 with GAC Group and Tencent among its founding investors. Its businesses cover ride-hailing and Robotaxi services, AI data and mapping technology services, and fleet sales and maintenance; it listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 10 July 2024 (09680.HK).
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Waymo
Waymo is the autonomous driving company of Alphabet (Google's parent). It began in 2009 as Google's self-driving car project and became a separate Alphabet subsidiary in December 2016; it operates the Waymo One robotaxi service and is the largest robotaxi operator in the United States.
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Pony AI
Pony AI (小马智行) is a Level 4 autonomous driving company founded in 2016 by Peng Jun and Lou Tiancheng. Its businesses cover robotaxi services, autonomous truck logistics and intelligent solutions; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 (PONY) and in Hong Kong in 2025.