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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 fascinating ones I had missed.
Only a couple weeks in the past, autonomous robotaxis from WeRide, the Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1, had been commercially deployed in Singapore, at Marina Coastal Drive and Esplanade. Unsurprisingly, that is Singapore’s first commercialized autonomous sanitation challenge. It’s truly the primary commercialized autonomous sanitation challenge I keep in mind seeing.
This type of utility appears particularly becoming for autonomous autos presently. Not being an professional on the subject, it looks as if they’ve comparatively easy jobs, and even outlined routes. It doesn’t appear to be the hardest job to make these autos 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 world commercialization,” WeRide notes. “In partnership with Chye Thiam Upkeep (CTM), one in all Singapore’s largest and highest-ranked environmental companies corporations, WeRide accomplished licensing, testing, and business deployment in underneath six months. WeRide’s Robosweeper S6 and Robosweeper S1 have turn out to be integral elements of Singapore’s good sanitation ecosystem.”
WeRide additionally offers somewhat bit of knowledge on the technical wants of those autonomous streetsweepers: “Marina Bay’s complicated street layouts and excessive pedestrian 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 coordinated day-and-night shifts. These totally electrical autos guarantee secure and environment friendly operations whereas decreasing 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 at the very least 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 good sanitation options globally, fostering greener, sustainable city residing.”
The corporate additionally famous afterward 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 may be coming to the UAE, that it might launch autonomous bus service (“Robobus” service) in France with associate Beti as early as January 2025, and that WeRide had launched Robobus service in Singapore earlier this 12 months. “This pioneering initiative options an built-in manual-autonomous shuttle system connecting luxurious accommodations and resorts, positioning WeRide as a trailblazer in premium, autonomous transportation options.”
The corporate additionally highlighted a collection of milestones achieved in China, its house base. Clearly, the corporate is on a roll — no pun meant.
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