Baidu opens fourth Apollo Park in Wuzhen, Zhejiang

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Baidu opened up an Apollo Park intelligent connected pilot base in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, signifying the tech giant’s strategic layout in the Yangtze River delta area and the city’s resolution in autonomous driving-related transformation.

Apollo Park; Photo credit: Baidu

The Wuzhen Apollo Park marked the autonomous driving unit’s fourth urban intelligent connected demonstration base in the country, after Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.

The Park is home to an R&D center for autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination, a remote big-data cloud control center, an operation command center, a debugging and calibration center, an R&D testing center, a 5G parallel driving cockpit control system, an intelligent connected engineering technology center, a multi-source sensor integration calibration center, an exhibition center, and an incubator for companies within the ecosystem.

The Park will complete Baidu Apollo’s autonomous driving and V2X industrial chain in Wuzhen and consolidate local “car-road-cloud-map-city” construction. Wuzhen’s intelligent transportation system development will also benefit from the Park, accelerating its progress to become the first full-city advanced autonomous driving pilot zone in Zhejiang Province.

Smart ParkRover; photo credit: Golden Ridge

Additionally, on the grand opening day of Apollo Park, numerous partners of Baidu Apollo’s ecosystem also showcased their products in the Park, including NEOLIX’s crewless retail vehicle and security vehicle, automated street cleaning vehicles from IDRIVERPLUS, and the Smart ParkRover from Golden Ridge.