AutoX RoboTaxi

AutoX (founded in August 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao, known as Professor X, a former Princeton assistant professor; based in Shenzhen and California and backed by Alibaba and Dongfeng Motor Group) was an early Chinese robotaxi leader and the second company in the world to run a public fully-driverless robotaxi service, in Shenzhen in 2021, holding driverless permits across six cities and opening a San Francisco operations center in 2022. The registry records it at commercial maturity to reflect that historical peak, with a discontinued lifecycle state: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely, with China operations divested, offices closed, and the brand discontinued, while the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup called Tensor with no active China presence, so it is not a currently-operating robotaxi service. This follows the active-retired split, with maturity reflecting the historical commercial peak and lifecycle reflecting the wind-down. The frequently cited 2021 claim of a fleet of more than a thousand vehicles, the largest in China, is stale and self-reported and does not reflect 2026 reality, the roughly $267 million total-funding figure is an aggregator number rather than primary-sourced, the exact wind-down date is unconfirmed with the company having gone quiet around 2022 to 2023 and completing the wind-down around 2024 to 2025, and Tensor's planned second-half-2026 consumer-robocar launch is a forward-looking claim rather than a shipped product.

Yes. AutoX RoboTaxi is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Yes. DEPLOY independently verifies AutoX RoboTaxi performing Transports passengers autonomously, with no human in the loop.

AutoX RoboTaxi is made by AutoX, based in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2016.

1 verified deployment of AutoX RoboTaxi is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Shenzhen.

AutoX RoboTaxi is discontinued and no longer sold; its historical record remains on the DEPLOY registry.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable av robots to AutoX RoboTaxi include Waymo Driver (6th gen), Zoox Robotaxi, Tesla Robotaxi (Model Y ADS), May Mobility Autonomous Sienna.

AutoX RoboTaxi and Waymo Driver (6th gen) (Waymo · 52 deployments) are both av robots on the DEPLOY registry. AutoX RoboTaxi has 1 verified deployment on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, AutoX RoboTaxi ranks in roughly the top 84% of av models tracked by the registry.

AutoX RoboTaxi is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.

AutoX RoboTaxi is discontinued: the product line is permanently ceased; historical records remain on the registry.

AutoX RoboTaxi has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

AutoX operates China's largest fully driverless robotaxi service, covering 65 square miles across Shanghai and Shenzhen. AutoX is a Level 4 fully autonomous robotaxi provider. Commercial operations are in Shanghai and Shenzhen only, not nationwide.