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Autowise
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Life at Autowise

About Autowise

Autowise.ai, established in August 2017, focuses on research and development in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology as its core business. Since its inception, the company has rapidly grown into a global leader in the commercialization of autonomous driving. In December 2017, Autowise.ai established China's first Robotaxi fleet. Following this milestone, in March 2018, the company released the world's first self-driving sweeper fleet, which was put into trial operation. Subsequently, in April 2019, Autowise.ai obtained the world's first self-driving sweeper road test license. Throughout its journey, Autowise.ai has remained deeply engaged in product and technology research and development. Notably, it has launched the full-stack self-developed autonomous driving sweeper AutowiseV3, the autonomous driving platform Roboard-X, the remote operation platform Radar24, and a versatile autonomous sanitation vehicle named Platforma-X. These endeavors have led to commercial deployments in over 30 cities.

Our mission

We strive to promote the assimilation of autonomous sweepers into the urban planning and infrastructure of the modern society.

Our vision

We aim to provide high-quality autonomous sweepers that guarantee optimum performance, safety, and zero carbon emissions.

Milestones

Aug. 2017

Autowise.ai was established in Songjiang District, Shanghai.

Dec. 2017

We established one of the earliest robotaxi fleets in China in Shanghai.

Mar. 2018

The world's first fleet of autonomous sweepers was launched and put into trial operation.

Sep. 2018

We were invited to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) to exhibit different models of autonomous sweepers; and won the World Artificial Intelligence Self-Driving Challenge Application Award.

Mar. 2019

Test projects performed with ALBA Group at the Wilhelmshaven facility in Germany were successful, becoming the first vehicle from a Chinese company to enter European sanitation.

Apr. 2019

We received the world's first road test license for autonomous sweepers, and assisted in the development of related testing standards.

Oct. 2019

We signed a framework agreement with Suzhou Xiangcheng District High-speed Railway New City for 30 autonomous sweepers at one time, marking the world's first open road commercial operation.

Nov. 2019

We signed a contract with a retail chain in the U.S. and officially entered the U.S. market.

Jun. 2020

We established WIBOT, a joint venture company with the Swiss Boschung Group, and launched the Urban-Sweeper S2.0 Autonomous smart sweeper, opening up the self-driving sweeping market in Europe and America.

Aug. 2020

We won a bid for a smart sanitation service project in Longhu Street, Huangpu District, Guangzhou.

Oct. 2020

We began operating in Lin-gang Special Area and received a one-time order worth 24 million RMB.

Dec. 2020

We were awarded “2020 China Rising Star” by Deloitte China.

Apr. 2021

We signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Nanjing Traffic Operation and Management Group. Our vehicles were also used in the Nanjing Yingtian Avenue and Dinghuaimen Yangtze River Tunnels, becoming the world's first autonomous sweepers to enter the tunnels for cleaning.

May. 2021

We started working on the main road of Tangshan Port in Hebei Province, the first commercial autonomous sweeping project to operate in a domestic port.

May. 2021

We began working in the Yanta District of Xi'an and did an excellent job of clearing the city roads with high levels of pedestrian traffic.

Jun. 2021

We conducted our first driverless test at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport and passed the road test evaluation. This marked the first time a large driverless sanitation vehicle was used at an airport.

Aug. 2021

We began working in Shushan District, Hefei. This was the first time autonomous sweepers were used in Hefei, and marks another success for our integrated sanitation services.

Nov. 2021

Based on the success of the Nanjing Yangtze River Crossing Tunnel project, Autowise.ai started to explore the integrated solution of "large-scale sweeper + upgrading + R&D” and develop a new business model together with Nanjing Traffic Operation Management Group.

Dec. 2021

We completed the acceptance of Duisburg project in Germany, and about to expand our business in EMEA, USA, Australia, and New Zealand.

Dec. 2021

Our autonomous driving sweeper fleet landed in Qingdao for an integrated cleaning operation, covering an area of nearly 2 million square meters and efficiently completing the large-scale cleaning task of urban roads.

Jan. 2022

A smart cleaning pilot project started in Wuxi Business District. The road cleaning area has reached 1.16 million square meters, setting a benchmark for the application of autonomous driving in smart cleaning.

Mar. 2022

The research paper Exploring Geometry Consistency for Monocular 3D Object Detection by the Autowise.ai-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Laboratory was accepted at CVPR 2022.

May. 2022

Urban-Sweeper S2.0 Autonomous was presented as the only autonomous sweeper at IFAT 2022, Munich and brought a dynamic demonstration in the exhibition area.

Aug. 2022

Focusing on the monocular 3D detection task, the research paper Semi-Supervised Monocular 3D Object Detection by Multi-View Consistency by the Autowise.ai-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Laboratory was accepted at ECCV 2022.

Sep. 2022

Autowise.ai launched the new autonomous sweeper Autowise V3 and fully intelligent Autowise Floor Scrubber in WAIC 2022.

Jan. 2023

Autowise.ai launched the new autonomous chassis Roboard-X. This product can realize multi-scene upper X transformation and fully support efficient reuse in different scenarios.

Mar. 2023

We won the Shanghai“Specialized and Sophisticated SMEs”Certification.

Mar. 2023

We reached a strategic cooperation with Saudi Arabia’s Ajlan & Bros Holding Group. The two parties will establish a joint venture and plan to deploy more than 1,000 autonomous vehicles in Saudi Arabia and other regions of the Middle East.

Jun. 2023

The autonomous sweeper Autowise V3 started working in Luohu District, Shenzhen and did an excellent job of cleaning on public roads.

Jun. 2023

We won the bid for a smart sanitation service project in Wuxi worth 140 million, and planned to deploy more than one hundred V3 to carry out outdoor cleaning operations.

Jul. 2023

We launched the remote operation platform Radar 24. Based on Radar 24 platform, each person can remotely manage 5-10 autonomous vehicles.

Aug. 2023

Saudi Arabia project came into operation, Middle East scale application entered substantial landing stage.

Oct. 2023

Autowise V3 went into commercial operation in Dubai.

Feb. 2024

We earned place in prestigious Deloitte China Top 50 list for 2023.

Mar. 2024

We launched our highly anticipated Platforma-X, the industry’s first multi-purpose autonomous sanitation vehicle, allowing full operation without manual intervention, reducing the comprehensive usage cost of sanitation operations by nearly 70%.

Mar. 2024

Autowise.ai and TUS-EST signed comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement to jointly create new productivity for urban development.

May. 2024

A research paper titled “MEDL-U: Uncertainty-aware 3D Automatic Annotation based on Evidential Deep Learning” by Autowise.ai-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Joint Laboratory was accepted at ICRA2024.

Founder & CEO

Founder and CEO

Chao Huang

Mr. Chao Huang founded autonomous technology platform company Autowise.ai back in 2017. He has over 10 years of experience in the autonomous driving industry. He previously served as lead R&D engineer for core Baidu’s deep learning projects, and was chief engineer to lead DiDi’s autonomous driving division. At DiDi, he established the company’s first autonomous driving R&D team and rollout the first robotaxi fleet to test on both urban public road and highways back in 2017, reaching speed of 80km/h.

As the CEO of Autowise.ai, he has led the company to commercialize over 200 autonomous vehicles in 20 cities globally, launching new multi-purpose platform Roboard-X in 2023, and committed to providing cutting-edge autonomous technology that is safe, environmentally friendly and improves urban mobility around the world.

Chao Huang - Founder and CEO

Co-founder

Vice President of Technology

Co-founder, Vice President of Technology

Wei Li

  • Former data mining project leader of Baidu’s big data team, responsible for data processing and mining of tens of billions of cookies, which direct services to Baidu Phoenix Nest, finance and other core business
  • Former senior R & D engineer of data system from Baidu Infrastructure Department, responsible for the research and development of Baidu data warehouse system, where data throughput reaches 3PB daily

Wei Li - Co-founder, Vice President of Technology

Partner

Vice President of Corporate Development

Partner, Vice President of Corporate Development

William Liu

  • Former head of strategy and cooperation of Didi, led the strategy and the cooperation of autonomous and customized vehicle projects, independently completed Toyota’s $600 million investment into Didi Group
  • Former general manager of the joint venture between DiDi and Toyota, from 0 to 1, covering 15 cities with a total of 1 billion assets in offline operations
  • Former business development manager for IoV in APAC at General Motors, leading B2B commercialization
  • Former strategy consultant at Roland Berger, focus on automotive and industrial projects

William Liu - Partner, Vice President of Corporate Development

Partner

Vice President of Product and Operation

Partner, Vice President of Product and Operation

Yanye Tang

  • Former senior integrated operation expert of Ali cloud intelligent business group
  • Former head and senior director for product and operation of Didi Express and Didi Premier, the largest business at Didi Group
  • Former head of Didi’s international business in Australia and New Zealand, with 0-1 experience in overseas products and operations
  • Former head of product at Baidu LBS Division, one of the earliest product manager of Baidu Map

Yanye Tang - Partner, Vice President of Product and Operation

CFO

Chief Financial Officer

Yiyue Chen

  • Chinese Certified Public Accountant, has more than 10 years of experience in auditing and corporate finance management for listed companies and multinational groups
  • Former CFO of New Development Group Co., Ltd. (under with A-share listed companies and National Equities Exchange and Quotations listed company)
  • Former audit manager of PWC accounting firm, with rich experience of auditing in listed companies and multinational groups
  • Graduated from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics with a degree in Investment Economics and Accounting Management

Yiyue Chen - Chief Financial Officer

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