Baidu

Chinese AI and internet company (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888) that operates Apollo Go, the largest autonomous ride-hailing (robotaxi) operation in the Eastern hemisphere by scale and ride volume. As of late 2025/early 2026, Apollo Go had surpassed 17 million cumulative rider orders and expanded to ~22 cities worldwide, including Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Hong Kong domestically, plus international operations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Baidu designs its own electric robotaxi vehicles (the sixth-generation Apollo RT6, built on its Apollo Galaxy / Xinghe self-driving platform, at ~204,600 RMB / ~$28,600 per vehicle, roughly half the prior generation's cost). Wuhan is its largest and flagship deployment (1,000+ vehicles), where Apollo Go reached per-vehicle profitability. Baidu received China's first fully-driverless commercial robotaxi permits (Chongqing and Wuhan, August 2022). The company reports its driverless fleet averages ~10.14 million km between airbag deployments. Apollo Go has announced forward plans to scale to tens of thousands of vehicles across Chinese mega-cities and to expand into Europe (including a vehicle-supply agreement with Lyft, Aug 2025). Forward targets, not current deployments.

Baidu has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses, Apollo RT6 (Baidu builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

Yes. Baidu is publicly traded on public markets, per the DEPLOY registry.

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Baidu building in the same form factors include Earendil Robotics, Tesla, Waymo, Aurora Innovation.

Robin Li is the ceo of Baidu, per the DEPLOY registry.

Baidu is publicly traded (public markets), so its shares can be bought through any broker.

Baidu is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Baidu has raised approximately $1.5B in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

Baidu is publicly held by its shareholders.

Baidu operates 7 verified deployments, including at Global, Abu Dhabi, Dubai.

DEPLOY has 7 verified Baidu deployments on record at sites including Global, Abu Dhabi, Dubai. That is a count of distinct field deployments each backed by sourced evidence, not a manufacturer's claimed unit total; it updates as new sites are verified.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Baidu ranks in roughly the top 19% of companies tracked by the registry.

Baidu was founded in 2000.

4 active incidents involving Baidu are on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.

Baidu has 4 active incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. 4 incidents on record (3 serious, 1 moderate). Most recent: Apr 2026. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.