Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On January 6, autonomous driving technology company WeRide announced that its Robotaxi model GXR has become the world's first Robotaxi powered by NVIDIA's DRIVE Thor X chip. As part of NVIDIA's global L4 Robotaxi ecosystem, the vehicle has already entered fully driverless commercial operations in both China and the United Arab Emirates.
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During his keynote at the CES 2026, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang outlined his vision for the next decade of mobility, predicting that most vehicles worldwide will become autonomous. His presentation highlighted a global L4 autonomous driving and Robotaxi ecosystem built on NVIDIA technologies, with WeRide featured as a key participant—underscoring the company's standing in both technical capability and international deployment.
At the infrastructure level, WeRide has partnered with Lenovo Vehicle Computing to develop the HPC 3.0 high-performance computing platform, built on a dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor configuration. Delivering up to 2,000 TOPS of AI computing power, the platform is designed to meet the demanding performance and safety requirements of L4 autonomous driving in dense urban environments. Its fully automotive-grade architecture also marks a major cost breakthrough, cutting mass-production pricing to one quarter of the previous generation, reducing autonomous driving kit costs by roughly half, and lowering total cost of ownership across the platform's lifecycle by 84%.
The HPC 3.0 platform has been deployed on WeRide's next-generation Robotaxi GXR, enabling it to become the first Robotaxi worldwide to run on the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor X chip. Purpose-built for urban mobility, GXR supports fully driverless L4 operations on public roads. It is already operating in cities including Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Riyadh, making it the first Robotaxi model to achieve large-scale, fully unmanned commercial service in both China and the UAE.
Operational data further illustrates the model's maturity. In Guangzhou, a single GXR vehicle can complete up to 25 trips per day under round-the-clock operation, while in Beijing it reaches as many as 23 trips during a full daily shift from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. In Abu Dhabi, where commercial Robotaxi services began in December 2024, WeRide's fleet has expanded fourfold, with single-vehicle profitability achieved following the launch of fully driverless operations in November 2025. Public services are also underway in Dubai and Riyadh, with Singapore scheduled to join the network in 2026.
WeRide's collaboration with NVIDIA dates back to 2017, when NVIDIA became a strategic investor in the company. Since then, the two sides have worked closely across multiple NVIDIA platforms, aligning technology development with real-world deployment to support WeRide's global Robotaxi ambitions.
As regulatory frameworks mature worldwide, computing platforms advance and business models solidify, Robotaxis are moving rapidly toward large-scale deployment. WeRide expects to operate hundreds of thousands of Robotaxis globally by 2030 and plans to deepen cooperation with partners such as NVIDIA to accelerate mass commercialization, delivering safe, reliable and comfortable autonomous mobility to users around the world.
