JIDU, an intelligent electric vehicle company backed by Baidu and Geely, today unveiled its first concept production robocar ROBO-01. Integrating the leading intelligent driving capability powered by Baidu and world-class intelligent driving configurations, joined by a cutting-edge futuristic design, ROBO-01 is set to revolutionize the automobile industry, leading the way to an intelligent car era driven by AI.

Highlights include an active deformable structure design, 3D borderless one-piece large screen, zero-gravity seating, AI pixel lights and dual max-computing chips. The robocar's capabilities are based on a unique "trainable" functionality and JIDU robocar neural JET (JIDU Evolving Technology), which support a high-level autonomous driving solution with full redundancy, SOA-based intelligent cabin and millisecond-level offline intelligent voice assistant.


Having transitioned from the "Fuel Car 1.0 Era" to the "Electric Car 2.0 Era", the automotive industry is today entering the "Intelligent Car 3.0 Era" with JIDU leading the emergence of a new generation of automotive products.

The robocar was unveiled at JIDU's first-ever branded event ROBODAY, held in XiRang metaverse. At the unveiling, the first-ever digital human car owner, named Xijiajia, drove and interacted with ROBO-01.Jidu’s first model will be priced above 200,000 yuan, Baidu chief executive Robin Li said at a press conference last month.