Driverless Logistics Vehicles Released and Delivered Immediately, UISEE Innovation Opens Up a New Growth Trajectory

On September 15th, Youjia Innovation officially launched its unmanned logistics brand "Xiaozhu Unmanned Vehicle" in Shenzhen, achieving another ultimate evolution from L1 to L4 and bringing a new vehicle-grade unmanned logistics product option to the industry.

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The press conference, themed "Vigorous Bamboo Growth · Intelligent Mobility Without Boundaries," was attended by industry leaders such as Horizon Robotics founder and CEO Kai Yu, NavInfo CEO Peng Cheng, and RoboSense Chairman and Chief Scientist Chunxin Qiu, who together witnessed the powerful debut of Xiaozhu Unmanned Vehicle’s flagship partners T5 and T8.

The first model of Xiaozhu's unmanned vehicle, the T5, has optimized cargo space, allowing for a release of 5.5m³ of capacity and achieving the maximum load of 1000kg in its class, with a maximum range of 180km. It primarily serves niche scenarios such as express city distribution, supermarket retail, and fresh produce delivery.

The T8 has a volume of 8.5m³, capable of better meeting large-capacity transportation needs, with a maximum load of 1700kg and a maximum range of 240km. It can be widely used in urban distribution and industrial logistics, and can also be deployed in more specialized scenarios such as mining areas and ports.

Advancing dimensional upgrade, veteran smart drivers explore new scenarios

As a smart driving company that started with pre-installed mass production solutions, rapid iteration has been the foundation of UDrive Innovation’s more than ten years of deep industry cultivation. This has also been ingrained as a core trait of the Bamboo Autonomous Vehicle from the product definition stage.

Youjia Innovation stated that the urban scenarios of pre-installed assisted driving naturally overlap with the use scenarios of unmanned logistics, such as point-to-point fixed route driving functions.

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Youjia Innovation has extracted classic long-tail scenarios from the massive data accumulated in the pre-installation volume business, and conducted targeted algorithm optimization for unmanned logistics scenarios, helping Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles rapidly develop core capabilities such as public road handling, complex road condition navigation, indoor and outdoor campus autonomous cruising, operational area automatic parking, and active safety.

Based on powerful scenario transfer capabilities and efficient data closed-loop, UDrive's innovative front-end mass-production passenger business and unmanned logistics cargo business achieve mutual empowerment and co-evolution—this is also the source of the soft power of Xiaozhu autonomous vehicles.

In terms of hardware, the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle adopts a multi-sensor fusion solution, including three LiDARs and eleven cameras, achieving a 360° blind-spot-free view for precise road condition recognition and ensuring driving safety.

Considering complex road conditions and harsh weather, Xiaozhu autonomous vehicles are equipped with air-blowing self-cleaning functionality on all cameras. This automatically removes rain, snow, and dust, preventing the cameras' view from being obstructed by dirt.

Yujia Innovation's understanding of real road scenarios, solid foundation in algorithms and data, as well as its data closed-loop system, lays the experiential foundation for product functionality and establishes the safety baseline for Xiaozhu's unmanned vehicles.

Front-mounted ecological extreme reuseJoin hands with top-tier "circle of friends"

Xiaozhu Autonomous Vehicle is not only a culmination of UDrive’s cutting-edge innovative technologies, but also a reutilizer of its pre-installed ecosystem.

As the first strategic partners of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles, both T5 and T8 core components are automotive-grade, stable and durable, with high-quality delivery. The next generation of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles will be jointly developed with deep cooperation from Youjia Innovation's mass production partners.

Specifically, the next-generation product of Xiaozhu's unmanned vehicle will highly integrate Horizon's Dual-Channel 6M chip, Suteng Juchuang's latest generation EMX lidar product, and Quattro's positioning system P-Box, collectively bringing more advanced products to the industry.

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At the press conference, Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, stated, "We look forward to a strong collaboration that combines powerful perception capabilities and computational efficiency to jointly advance the evolution of autonomous vehicles, while further promoting cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the logistics industry, allowing intelligent driving to truly serve various industries."

From this perspective, Youjia's strong innovation capabilities and its "circle of friends" with shared concepts are the core competitiveness of Xiaozhu's autonomous vehicles, as well as the internal driving force behind Xiaozhu's continuous value creation for the industry and society.

Moreover, the key components for the autonomous driving of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle can be fully reused from the Youjia innovative pre-installation mass production project selection, sharing supply chain resources. Thanks to the substantial procurement demand for components in the passenger vehicle project, the BOM cost of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle is maximally diluted. This creates a cost moat for it among products with similar performance.

Immediate delivery, commercialization

Previously, Youjia Innovation's Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle product had already gained recognition from Shenzhen Post and Eastern Bus— the three parties signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly participate in urban governance, empower the logistics industry, and give back to public services.

At the press conference, Youjia Innovation also announced the successful rollout of the first batch of unmanned vehicles and officially delivered them to clients, including those in the express delivery industry, achieving "release and delivery on the same day."

Guests from the governments of multiple cities, including Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xi'an, and Jiangyin, witnessed this moment together. These cities will also be the key cities for the initial deployment of Xiaozhu autonomous vehicles.

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Liu Guoqing, founder and chairman of Youjia Innovation, summarized the implementation path of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles as the "Base Strategy," which means concentrating resources to deeply cultivate specific areas and constructing an operational model for replication across broader regions.

The birth and deployment of the Xiaozhu autonomous vehicle is a concrete manifestation of Udrive's innovative corporate culture of "bamboo spirit." It is also another instance, following minibuses, mining areas, and airports, where the company has validated the feasibility of progressive players advancing toward L4 autonomous driving in the logistics field.

Currently, Youjia Innovation has built a rich product matrix based on full-dimensional L1-L4 intelligent driving technology capabilities, including iSafety, iPilot, and iRobo solutions, developing iterative capabilities to meet the demands of different scenarios.

In the future, Youjia Innovation will continue to adhere to the Maozhu spirit of "rooting downward and iterating upward," deeply co-creating with ecological partners, further enhancing the value of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle, and continuously expanding the boundaries of autonomous driving implementation.