As early as June 8, the first brand launch of Baidu’s car-making Jidu Automotive, “ROBODAY”, was held at Baidu’s metaverse platform, “Xiyang,” and the first car robot concept car was officially released. Recently, at the media communication meeting, Jiduo Motors explained the mass production progress of its first car robot concept car – ROBO-01, whose mass production version is scheduled to be unveiled at this year’s Guangzhou Auto Show (Nov. 18-Nov. 27) and may be delivered in 2023.
In addition, the meeting also explained once again that “Geely withdrew from the investment in Jidu,” and that Jidu is still jointly owned by Baidu and Geely, with the shares held by both parties remain unchanged.
It is reported that the set of degree car robot in the appearance design concept ahead, the front hood is equipped with “jumping light type” dual LIDAR, the use of an electronic rearview mirror, the tail is equipped with “active lifting tail”, active use of air; headlights and intelligent light language mode, custom Display graphics, the overall extremely sci-fi.
The interior of the vehicle provides 0-gravity seats with sufficient seat design; the design of the dashboard is more radical, combining the dashboard and the central control screen into one, equipped with a large 3D borderless integrated screen, displaying all-round vehicle instrumentation information and meeting entertainment and navigation needs, while nearly eliminating all physical buttons inside the vehicle.
The vehicle’s steering wheel is also unprecedented, shaped like a Formula One steering wheel, with a visual display integrated in the center. And, when the vehicle is on autopilot, the steering wheel will automatically telescope and fold down to provide more space for the driver’s seat.
Intelligent assisted driving, equipped with two LIDAR, 12 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radar, and 5 millimeter-wave radar and two Nvidia Orin X chips composed of an autonomous driving system. Officially, the “car robot” has an L4 level of self-driving capability.
About the price, Robin Li has said that the target market of the set of cars is the family car, product pricing at about 200,000 yuan. But officials have also stressed that the future production model will have 90% similarity to the concept car. According to the formation of the concept car, 200,000 to take this car, there is no small difficulty.
