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September 12 — Hello, a major bike-sharing company backed by a leading financial group in China, has unveiled its first robotaxi, named Hello Robot 1 (HR1), with plans to deploy over 50,000 units worldwide by 2027.
The Shanghai-based firm introduced the level-four autonomous vehicle yesterday during the 2025 Inclusion Conference held on the Bund. Level 4 driverless vehicles can operate independently within specific areas without human oversight.
The company intends to begin mass production of HR1 next year as it accelerates its efforts in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology. A pilot project is already running in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, and the company aims to expand to more than 10 cities with a fleet of 10,000 vehicles once production scales up.
On the same day, the company signed strategic partnership agreements with several key players, including Venucia, a brand backed by Dongfeng Motor; Alibaba Cloud; autonomous driving startup Horizon Robotics; and lidar technology firm Hesai Technology. These collaborations are focused on accelerating the commercialization of robotaxi solutions. Notably, the partnership with Alibaba Cloud is centered on developing a computing cluster to train autonomous driving algorithms.
In addition to autonomous driving capabilities, the company is working on an AI-powered driver assistant that combines functions of a smart cockpit, vehicle manual, and travel guide. It will utilize multimodal recognition to interpret various inputs and employ retrieval-augmented generation so its large language model can reference a set of fixed documents when answering user questions.
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