On September 15th, Youjia Innovation officially launched its unmanned logistics brand "Xiaozhu Autonomous Vehicle" in Shenzhen, achieving another extreme evolution from L1 to L4, bringing a new choice of vehicle grade unmanned logistics products to the industry.

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The theme of this press conference is "Jingzhu Tujie · Intelligent Operation Boundless". Representatives from leading companies in the industry, including Horizon Robotics founder and CEO Yu Kai, NavInfo CEO Cheng Peng, and Sagitar Juchuang Chairman and Chief Scientist Qiu Chunxin, attended and witnessed the debut of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle's powerful partners T5 and T8. The first model of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle, T5, with optimized cargo space, can release a volume of 5.5m ³ and achieve a maximum load capacity of 1000kg in the same class, with a maximum range of 180km. It mainly serves segmented scenarios such as express city distribution, supermarket retail, and fresh food delivery. T8 has a capacity of 8.5m ³, which can better meet the needs of large capacity transportation, with a maximum load capacity of 1700kg and a maximum range of 240km. It can be widely used in urban distribution and industrial logistics, and can penetrate more professional scenarios such as mining areas and ports. As an intelligent driving company that started with mass production solutions, rapid iteration has been the foundation of Youjia Innovation's more than 10 years of industry cultivation, and it is also the gene engraved in the product definition stage of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles. Youjia Innovation stated that the urban scene with front mounted assisted driving naturally overlaps with the usage scenario of unmanned logistics, such as point-to-point fixed route driving function.

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 Youjia Innovation has extracted classic long tail scenarios from massive data accumulated from pre installed mass production business, and optimized targeted algorithms for unmanned logistics scenarios, helping Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles grow at an extremely fast speed to develop core capabilities such as open road response, complex road conditions passing, indoor and outdoor park autonomous cruising, automatic parking in work areas, and active safety. Based on strong scene migration capabilities and efficient data closure, Youjia Innovation's front-end mass production manned business and unmanned logistics cargo business can achieve two-way empowerment and co evolution - this is also the source of Xiaozhu's unmanned vehicle soft power. In terms of hardware, the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle adopts a multi-sensor fusion solution, including 3 laser radars and 11 cameras, to achieve a 360 ° blind spot free viewing angle, accurately identify road conditions, and safeguard vehicle driving safety. Considering the complex road conditions and adverse weather conditions, the entire camera of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle comes standard with an air blowing self-cleaning function, which automatically removes rain, snow, sand, and dust to avoid the camera being obstructed by dirt and grime. Youjia Innovation's understanding of real road scenarios, solid foundation in algorithms and data, and closed-loop data system have laid the experiential foundation for product functionality and built the safety bottom line for Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles. The ultimate reuse of the front-end ecosystem, together with the top-notch "friend circle" Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle, is not only the culmination of Youjia's innovative cutting-edge technology, but also the reuse of its front-end ecosystem. As the first strong partner of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles, the core components of T5 and T8 are both of automotive grade, stable and durable, and delivered with high quality. The next generation of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles will be jointly developed by deep partners in Youjia's innovative mass production business. Specifically, the next generation of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles will highly integrate Horizon Dual Journey 6M chips, Sagitar Juchuang's latest generation EMX LiDAR products, and NavInfo's new positioning system P-Box, bringing more advanced products to the industry together.

At the press conference, Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, stated, "We look forward to a strong alliance to jointly promote the evolution of unmanned vehicles with powerful perception and computing capabilities, while further reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the logistics industry, so that intelligent driving can truly serve thousands of industries." From this perspective, the strong and like-minded "circle of friends" of Youjia Innovation is the core competitiveness of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles, and also the internal driving force for Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles to continuously contribute value to the industry and society. More importantly, the intelligent driving key components of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle can be fully reused in the selection of Youjia's innovative front-end production projects, sharing supply chain resources. Thanks to the large demand for component procurement in passenger car projects, the BOM cost of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles has been maximally diluted. This constitutes a cost barrier among products with equivalent performance. Release and deliver, commercialization breakthrough ahead. Based on the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle product, Youjia Innovation has been recognized by Shenzhen Post and Eastern Public Transport - the three parties have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly participate in urban governance, empower the logistics industry, and give back to people's livelihood services. At the press conference, Youjia Innovation also announced the successful launch of the first batch of unmanned vehicles and officially delivered them to customers including the express delivery industry, achieving "release and delivery". Guests from the governments of Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xi'an, Jiangyin and other cities witnessed this moment together. And these cities will also be the first key cities for the landing of Xiaozhu unmanned vehicles.

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 Liu Guoqing, founder and chairman of Youjia Innovation, summarized the landing path of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle as a "base area strategy", which involves concentrating resources to deeply cultivate and construct operational paradigms for replication. In fact, the birth and landing of the Xiaozhu unmanned vehicle is a concrete manifestation of Youjia's innovative corporate culture of "Bamboo Spirit", and it is also another verification of the feasibility of progressive players moving towards L4 autonomous driving in the logistics field after minibuses, mining areas, and airports. At present, Youjia Innovation has built a rich product matrix based on the L1-L4 full dimensional intelligent driving technology strength, including iSafty, iPilot, and iRobo solutions, and has developed iterative capabilities to meet different scenario requirements. In the future, Youjia Innovation will continue to adhere to the bamboo spirit of "rooting downwards and iterating upwards", deeply co create with ecological partners, further leverage the value of small bamboo unmanned vehicles, and continuously expand the boundaries of autonomous driving landing.