Autonomous fleets

SeeWay.ai wins Beijing smart city contract to build connected vehicle infrastructure

The contract covers 398 intersections in Beijing's Fangshan district.

Two driverless container trucks carrying red containers pass through a checkpoint on a freight channel, seen from above.

Autonomous fleets

CiDi driverless trucks cut China-Vietnam round-trip border route to 8 hours

A local report says each round trip, including waiting at the freight yard, takes about eight hours, against two to three days for human-driven trucks.

Locator map of North Lantau in Hong Kong showing Tung Chung, Sunny Bay and Airport Island, where Baidu's self-driving trial runs.

Autonomous fleets

Baidu to extend self-driving tests to residents of a Hong Kong neighborhood

The new route will open to the public on October 20.

Taiwan aquaculture. Source: DepositPhotos/Tom Wang

Autonomous fleets

Former aerospace engineer builds robot boats for Taiwan's aquaculture market

EZaquaculture says it has sold more than 98 unmanned feeding boats; startup-accelerator trials found they cut labor about 70%.

A driverless mining truck loaded with coal on a haul road at an open-pit mine

Autonomous fleets

EACON autonomous driving systems expand to 10+ Chinese coal mines

EACON says more than 600 trucks running its system work coal faces at over 10 open-pit mines, a step beyond clearing rock.

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Electric cargo ship tests self-steering on China's Grand Canal

CATL supplied its batteries, motors and controls. A trade weekly says it delivered five ships to a Jining company and signed for 50 more.

Sites in Hong Kong’s driverless-vehicle plans. Map: AsiaTech; source data: Transport Department

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Hong Kong set to begin commercial self-driving services

Operators can apply starting within 2026, the Transport Department says, after driverless trials at the airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge port.

Westwell driverless truck - image via Westwell

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Driverless port vehicles start hauling boxes at Guangzhou's Nansha terminal

Westwell's first 20 Q-Chassis vehicles now share a Nansha terminal with human-driven traffic, and the project plans 60 by 2027.

Driverless trucks running CiDi's system. Photo: CiDi

Autonomous fleets

CiDi retrofits mining trucks to be self-driving

CiDi says shorter shift changes and faster haul cycles lifted August volume 11.7% at a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Autonomous fleets

Meituan tests driverless vans on rural postal routes in eastern China

Meituan tests driverless vans on rural post routes in eastern China