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After writing about WeRide’s robotaxi deployment in Abu Dhabi, I went taking a look at latest WeRide bulletins, and I observed one particularly attention-grabbing ones I had missed.
Only a couple weeks in the past, autonomous robotaxis from WeRide, the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1, have been commercially deployed in Singapore, at Marina Coastal Drive and Esplanade. Unsurprisingly, that is Singapore’s first commercialized autonomous sanitation venture. It’s truly the primary commercialized autonomous sanitation venture I bear in mind seeing.
This type of utility appears particularly becoming for autonomous automobiles at the moment. Not being an skilled on the subject, it looks as if they’ve comparatively easy jobs, and even outlined routes. It doesn’t look like the hardest job to make these automobiles autonomous — relative to creating robotaxis, that’s!
“The business launch of WeRide’s two autonomous sanitation units follows one week after the corporate’s receipt of M1 and T1 licenses from the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA), highlighting WeRide’s distinctive execution capabilities and industry-leading velocity in advancing international commercialization,” WeRide notes. “In partnership with Chye Thiam Upkeep (CTM), certainly one of Singapore’s largest and highest-ranked environmental providers corporations, WeRide accomplished licensing, testing, and business deployment in underneath six months. WeRide’s Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1 have develop into integral parts of Singapore’s sensible sanitation ecosystem.”
WeRide additionally supplies a bit bit of knowledge on the technical wants of those autonomous streetsweepers: “Marina Bay’s advanced highway layouts and excessive pedestrian site visitors demand exact and environment friendly sanitation options. WeRide’s Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1 leverage 360-degree notion capabilities and responsive planning and management applied sciences to enrich conventional sanitation operations by means of coordinated day-and-night shifts. These absolutely electrical automobiles guarantee secure and environment friendly operations whereas lowering carbon emissions, contributing to Singapore’s imaginative and prescient of a inexperienced, low-carbon metropolis.”
Additionally, it was simply over a month in the past that WeRide closed its preliminary public providing (IPO), being listed on Nasdaq [NASDAQ:WRD]. On the time, the corporate famous, “WeRide grew to become the world’s first publicly listed common autonomous driving expertise firm and the primary publicly listed Robotaxi firm.” (Emphasis from WeRide.) Since then, each press launch is noting no less than as soon as that WeRide is the primary publicly listed autonomous driving firm. Even on the finish of that streetsweeper announcement, the corporate wrote, “Because the world’s first publicly listed common autonomous driving expertise firm and the primary publicly listed Robotaxi firm, WeRide is dedicated to advancing sensible sanitation options globally, fostering greener, sustainable city dwelling.”
The corporate additionally famous in a while that Uber invested in WeRide on the IPO. It had beforehand introduced a strategic partnership between itself and Uber, in September, after which on the IPO in October, Uber invested in WeRide, “underscoring the power of their partnership.”
Moreover, WeRide previewed in that very same assertion the partnership with Uber that will be coming to the UAE, that it might launch autonomous bus service (“Robobus” service) in France with companion Beti as early as January 2025, and that WeRide had launched Robobus service in Singapore earlier this yr. “This pioneering initiative options an built-in manual-autonomous shuttle system connecting luxurious motels and resorts, positioning WeRide as a trailblazer in premium, autonomous transportation options.”
The corporate additionally highlighted a collection of milestones achieved in China, its residence base. Clearly, the corporate is on a roll — no pun meant.
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