AutoX is the Chinese wound-down robotaxi anchor of DEPLOY's cluster, the counterpart to the US wound-down Cruise: an early leader that reached a genuine driverless peak and then unwound entirely, the verification-posture counterweight to the still-scaling Chinese operators (Baidu Apollo, Pony AI, WeRide).
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The historical peak is real: AutoX was the second company in the world to run a public fully-driverless robotaxi service (Shenzhen, 2021), with driverless permits across six cities and a San Francisco operations center opened in 2022.
Price
No reviewed price is on record. We do not treat unverified analyst estimates as pricing data. There is no consumer price, and AutoX is discontinued. Its robotaxi was a ride service, not a vehicle sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
Availability
Discontinued
AutoX's China robotaxi operations are discontinued: China operations divested, offices closed, and the brand discontinued; the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup, Tensor.
Real-world status
AutoX (founded 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao, 'Professor X', a former Princeton assistant professor; Shenzhen and California; 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. It is the Chinese wound-down robotaxi anchor of DEPLOY's cluster, parallel to Cruise on the US side. It is recorded at commercial maturity to reflect that historical peak, with a discontinued lifecycle state: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely (China operations divested, offices closed, the brand discontinued), and 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.
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Verified-vs-claimed: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely and is not a currently-operating service. The 2021 claim of more than a thousand vehicles (the largest in China) is stale and self-reported; the ~$267M total-funding figure is an aggregator number; the exact wind-down date is unconfirmed (the company went quiet ~2022-2023, completing the wind-down ~2024-2025); and the founder's new venture Tensor has a forward-looking H2-2026 consumer-robocar launch, not a shipped product.
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There is no consumer price, and AutoX is discontinued. Its robotaxi was a ride service, not a vehicle sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
Wound-down robotaxis + survivors: AutoX vs Cruise vs Apollo
AutoX RoboTaxi
Cruise AV
Baidu Apollo RT6
State
Discontinued
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Discontinued
🟢verified
Commercial at scale
🟢verified
Geography
China (wound down)
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US (wound down)
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China (operating)
🟢verified
Aftermath
Founder -> Tensor (US)
🟢verified
GM -> ADAS
🟢verified
Apollo Go scaling
🟢verified
Pricing
No consumer price
⊘absence
No consumer price
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No consumer price
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Sources: DEPLOY registry, The Robot Report / TechBuzz, CarBuzz
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I ride an AutoX robotaxi?
No⊘absence. AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely (operations divested, offices closed, brand discontinued); the founder pivoted to a US robocar startup, Tensor. It is not a currently-operating service.
Does AutoX have the largest robotaxi fleet in China?
No🟢verified. The frequently cited 2021 claim of more than a thousand vehicles (the largest in China) is stale and self-reported🟠claimed and does not reflect 2026 reality: AutoX has wound down.
What is AutoX now?
The founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup, Tensor🟢verified, with no active China presence; Tensor's planned second-half-2026 consumer-robocar launch is a forward-looking claim, not a shipped product.
Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.