The Official AutoX Blog
Democratizing Autonomy
March 22, 2023
AutoX has been granted approval as Shanghai’s first driverless RoboTaxi operator. This approval marks the first time fully driverless RoboTaxis are allowed on the public roads of a downtown district in any metropolitan cities in Asia, in a major milestone for AutoX.
May 9, 2022
Globally, we have designed and built 10 RoboTaxi Operation Centers to ramp up testing and support our RoboTaxi services for the public. Take a tour inside one of them -- our Shenzhen Pingshan RoboTaxi Operations Center that supports our fully driverless service -- from a flying drone.
Feb 9, 2022
AutoX's RoboTaxi fleet has now exceeded 1000 vehicles. We are also opening a new RoboTaxi operations center in San Francisco to further expand our testing capacity in the city.
Jan 28, 2022
AutoX now operates Shenzhen’s largest autonomous driving area across 1,000 square kilometers, including a 168-square-kilometer fully driverless zone. AutoX RoboTaxis are able to navigate all the public roads inside the 1,000 square kilometer area.
Dec 22, 2021
The production facility puts together AutoX’s newest Gen5 system-equipped RoboTaxis and is the first dedicated production line for fully driverless RoboTaxis.
Nov 16, 2021
AutoX now operates the largest service area for fully driverless RoboTaxis across 65 square miles (168 square kilometers) of Shenzhen. Being able to navigate all the public roads in the Pingshan District in Shenzhen, AutoX has become the first RoboTaxi service to cover an entire district in an Asian megalopolis.
Aug 23, 2021
In a newly released video, an AutoX Gen5 system-equipped fully driverless RoboTaxi safely maneuvers through the dense and chaotic roads of an urban village in Shenzhen.
Jul 6, 2021
The AutoX Gen5 system is the first with sufficiently powerful hardware specifications capable of supporting fully driverless RoboTaxi deployment on public roads in the world's most crowded urban areas.
May 7, 2021
To mark this exciting news, AutoX also released a two-hour video of its fully driverless RoboTaxi continuously driving. The video is very impressive as it shows the capability of AutoX’s vehicles where the self-driving car takes 16 ride orders and passes through many Shenzhen landmarks.
Jan 28, 2021
AutoX becomes the first in Asia and second in the world to provide a completely autonomous RoboTaxi service for the public without safety drivers.
Dec 3, 2020
This is the first time that a fleet without accompanying safety drivers or remote operators has been deployed in Asia.
Aug 17, 2020
AutoX has announced that its RoboTaxi ride-hailing service in Shanghai is now open to the general public. This is the first time for Shanghai to have a fleet of autonomous RoboTaxi for everyone to ride.
Jul 17, 2020
Permit is only the third of its kind issued by California, allowing for autonomous vehicles to test drive without a safety driver present.
Apr 10, 2020
AutoX announced the opening of its Shanghai RoboTaxi Operations Center, which will serve as the largest data hub for self-driving car data in Shanghai. The launch follows a 2019 agreement with Shanghai municipal authorities to deploy 100 RoboTaxis.
Feb 26, 2020
Our data-driven development process leverages a large amount of real-world road test data and virtual-world simulation data to define the engineering goal and evaluate our progress. This post elaborates how it works.
Jan 6, 2020
AutoX announced a partnership with Fiat Chrysler (FCA) to start rolling out the first “Hardware Ready” RoboTaxi for the Asia market. The vehicle is the first RoboTaxi in Asia that has the hardware quality and safety design, capable of supporting a completely driverless taxi service without the need of a safety driver.
Jun 18, 2019
On June 18, 2019, AutoX became the second company in the world to be permitted by the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a Robotaxi pilot program. We also become the first company in California to provide RoboTaxi pilot operation to the general public.
Jan 29, 2019
With around 200,000 attendees converging in a relatively small area, the traffic in and around the conference was chaotic and a true challenge to navigate. We offered autonomous RoboTaxi rides throughout the day, and self-driving delivery at lunch time. An NBC reporter took a RoboTaxi ride, and we encountered a red-light runner! How did the AutoX RoboTaxi react?
Aug 27, 2018
August 27th 2018 will always be a special day in AutoX’s history. Two years of dreaming, hard work and innovation have come to fruition as we launch the first Autonomous Delivery Pilot program in California.
Jul 23, 2018
Professor X, our Founder & CEO, started the first post of our blog. He explains why he started AutoX in 2016 with the mission of “Democratizing Autonomy”, to accelerate the advent of fully driverless cars.