Baidu's RoboRun Autonomous Driving Update Orders, Milestones, and Market Expansion

TapTechNews August 22nd news, Baidu today announced the performance announcement of the second quarter of 2024, which mentioned the autonomous driving business of RoboRun.

In the second quarter of 2024, the autonomous driving orders supplied by Baidu's autonomous driving service RoboRun were approximately 899,000, an increase of 26% year-on-year. As of July 28, 2024, RoboRun has provided the public with more than 7 million orders for autonomous driving travel services in total.

On June 19, RoboRun began to provide 100% fully driverless ride-hailing services in almost the entire Wuhan (its largest operating city), marking an important milestone for this project. In addition, the sixth-generation autonomous vehicle RT6 of RoboRun has begun large-scale fully unmanned road tests.

According to the previous report of TapTechNews, Hesai Technology disclosed that the sixth-generation Baidu Apollo unmanned vehicle will also be put on the market successively this year. The main lidar on the sixth-generation Baidu Apollo unmanned vehicle - Yichi 06 is exclusively supplied by Hesai, and a single vehicle is equipped with 4 ultra-high-definition long-range lidar AT128, and its detection distance exceeds 656 feet (about 200 meters), and the high-definition three-dimensional perception is covered to 360°.

It is worth noting that this is the first time that the ADAS semi-solid lidar solution has been massively applied and deployed on Robotaxi in China, which also means that AT128 has expanded from the pre-installed mass production field to the L4-level autonomous driving market.