Robotaxis are being trialled mostly in the US, China, and a few specific niche places like the UAE and Singapore. Europe has been much slower to jump into robotaxi trials. But it’s edging into them now, and we have an announcement about the first robotaxi service launching in Switzerland — … [continued]
This may well end up being the year of the robotaxi. Several companies are trying to scale up robotaxi service significantly after early testing and initial rollout. You can count Chinese auto giant Geely and self-driving partner WeRide in that group. Geely Holding Group brand Farizon and WeRide announced today … [continued]
Commercial robotaxi service continues to expand in city after city. In Abu Dhabi, Uber and WeRide just expanded driverless commercial robotaxi service into downtown. WeRide and Uber launched robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi a little more than a year ago. With this expansion into downtown, the partners now serve about … [continued]
A handful more partnerships between robotaxi companies and ride-hailing apps have popped out in recent days and weeks. Baidu x Lyft & Uber in London First of all, we’ve got Baidu partnering with Uber and Lyft in London. Uber and Lyft testing of the Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi system is … [continued]
Robotaxi companies just keep growing and growing, expanding into more and more cities. One of the Chinese leaders, WeRide, is the latest to make a move. It is about to launch in tech-haven Singapore in collaboration with Grab. The robotaxi service is being named Ai.R (which stands for Autonomously Intelligent … [continued]
WeRide has received approval to operate robotaxis in Saudi Arabia. It is partnering with Uber and Ai Driver and doing the pilot in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. By the end of the year, the companies plan to have full-scale commercial operations up and running. Haven’t heard of … [continued]
While the US market focuses on Waymo and Tesla much of the time when tracking and discussing robotaxis, the fact is, there are robotaxis in operation outside the US already as well. One company developing such vehicle is WeRide. We have covered WeRide numerous times in the past, and I’ll … [continued]
Uber and WeRide launched commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi 5 months ago. Apparently, that partnership is going well, as the companies have now indicated that they plan to expand such service to 15 more cities in the next 5 years. Uber is clearly eyeing a robotaxi future. It is … [continued]
After writing about WeRide’s robotaxi deployment in Abu Dhabi, I went looking at recent WeRide announcements, and I noticed one especially interesting ones I had missed. Just a couple weeks ago, autonomous robotaxis from WeRide, the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1, were commercially deployed in Singapore, at Marina Coastal Drive … [continued]
Having gone to Abu Dhabi several times for cleantech conferences, I could see that UAE leaders were very keen on futuristic tech and very keen on superlatives — the biggest, the first, the tallest, the fastest, etc. So, I knew it would be quick to deploy robotaxis. Today, the capital … [continued]
