Recently, at the 2025 (9th) GaoGong Intelligent Vehicle Annual Conference, the highly anticipated annual Golden Ball Award list was officially announced. Velobotics successfully claimed the "Annual Pioneer in Autonomous Driving Commercialization Award" by virtue of its outstanding commercialization achievements and significant industry demonstration value in the autonomous driving field.
As one of the most authoritative and prestigious benchmark awards in China's intelligent vehicle industry, the GaoGong Golden Ball Award has always focused on technological strength, market competition, and industry influence through a rigorous selection system. This award not only represents high recognition of Velobotics' commercialization path and practical results but also highlights its pioneering position as a "core benchmark" enterprise in the industry.
At the concurrent special forum themed "Breaking the Ice in Autonomous Driving Commercialization", Cai Yi, Senior Director of Velobotics' Strategic Operations Department, shared the company’s insights and explorations in the implementation of multi-scenario smart solutions.
As one of the earliest domestic autonomous driving startups, Velobotics has grown into a leading provider of special-purpose autonomous driving solutions, successfully forging a distinctive and differentiated path to commercialization.
Cai Yi elaborated that based on profound insights into the essence of the industry, Velobotics has formulated its strategic layout around three core levels of human needs, achieving in-depth integration of technology and business:
The first level is safeguarding life safety by committing to the public security sector. Velobotics applies autonomous driving technology to special scenarios such as fire fighting and emergency rescue. Its unmanned special-purpose vehicles can perform rapid response and material delivery tasks in high-risk fire sites and accident scenes, significantly reducing personnel safety risks, improving the efficiency and reliability of rescue operations, and safeguarding the bottom line of social security with technological strength. Currently, in the public security field, Velobotics’ annual shipments have reached several thousand units/sets, covering multiple scenarios including material support, security patrol, and forest and grass fire protection.
The second level is freeing people from repetitive labor by deepening its presence in living service scenarios. Its autonomous cleaning vehicles and autonomous sanitation vehicles have become industry benchmarks, achieving large-scale deployment in many countries and regions worldwide, with a cumulative shipment volume of nearly 10,000 units. These products have effectively driven the intelligent upgrading of basic labor. At present, Velobotics’ living service product matrix, ranging from 0.5-ton to 1.5-ton small autonomous cleaning vehicles to 12-ton to 18-ton large autonomous sanitation vehicles, has fully covered the public transportation sector, including sanitation operation scenarios such as urban arterial roads, auxiliary roads, non-motor vehicle lanes, and semi-enclosed areas.
The third level is enhancing travel experience by laying out the intelligent mobility sector. Velobotics continues to invest in the intelligent mobility segment. Its autonomous sightseeing vehicles are gradually transitioning from demonstration operations to regular services, committed to providing the public with safer, more comfortable and efficient travel options. Meanwhile, based on independent technologies and products, Velobotics can provide cities with an integrated vehicle-road-cloud autonomous driving vehicle equipment solution.
Currently, Velobotics ranks first in global market share across multiple niche segments, setting a successful example for the commercialization of autonomous driving.
Solid and extensive multi-scenario commercial deployment is underpinned by Velobotics’ profound technological accumulation and systematic capabilities.
To date, Velobotics has accumulated over 1,200 authorized patents, ranking first among domestic autonomous driving startups; won nearly 10 national and provincial-level major scientific and technological awards; and achieved a commercial application mileage of over 120 million kilometers.
It is these solid technological accumulations, authoritative recognition of achievements, and large-scale real-world road test data that collectively form the core foundation for Velobotics to realize large-scale multi-scenario deployment, continuously verifying and driving the continuous improvement of its technological reliability, system stability, and scenario adaptability.
Winning the "Annual Pioneer in Autonomous Driving Commercialization Award" at the GaoGong Intelligent Vehicle Annual Conference is a phased summary and affirmation of Velobotics’ firm adherence to the path of "technology-driven and scenario-intensive development" over the past few years.
Looking to the future, Velobotics will continue to uphold its vision and mission of "Empowering various industries with autonomous driving technology," and through continuous technological innovation and mature commercial capabilities, promote the rooting and growth of autonomous driving technology in more key scenarios, contributing pioneering strength to the high-quality development and large-scale breakthrough of the entire industry.
