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Baidu Apollo

apollo.baidu.com

Baidu's open autonomous driving and robotics platform.

Track Baidu Apollo
Founded
2017
HQ
Beijing, China
Status
active

Employees

7.5k

Overview

Baidu's open autonomous driving and robotics platform. RT-Detr vision models for robot perception. Powers Apollo Go robotaxi service.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Headquarters

Beijing, China

Founded

2017

Status

private

Type

brain

Data & sources

Press releases

1

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Partnerships

Every company Baidu Apollo has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total1 operating1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1NVIDIA1× joint1110 total
  2. 2Uber1× joint31 total

Most recent

  1. Uber x Baidu Apollo robotaxi Dubai2026-08-21
    with Uberjust announced

Relationships

NNVIDIATechnology partnerUUberDeployer

Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Baidu Apollo, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

Which robotaxi is most deployed?
Waymo. About 4,000 vehicles across ~15 US metros doing ~500,000 paid fully driverless rides per week as of mid-2026. Baidu Apollo Go is the closest challenger at ~300,000 weekly rides and 20+ cities.Read the full explainer →
Which robotaxi is safest?
Waymo, by a wide margin: it is the only fully driverless robotaxi with tens of millions of paid rider-only miles and peer-reviewed crash-rate data showing large reductions in injury crashes vs a human-driver benchmark on the same streets.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (4)

  • Robin Li CEO (Baidu)secondary-verified
  • Robin Li (Li Yanhong) Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Baidusecondary-verified
  • Wang Yunpeng Corporate Vice President of Baidu & President of Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), Head of Baidu Apollosecondary-verified
  • Robin Li Foundersecondary-verified

Founders (3)

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Former / Previously (1)

  • Eric Xu Co-founder (Baidu)secondary-verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Baidu Apollo.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Recent coverage

Baidu Apollo in third-party press

Baidu Apollo Go RT6 goes fully driverless on Uber in Dubai

Aug 20, 2026

Will Baidu’s (BIDU) Apollo Go Right-Hand-Drive Trials Reshape Its Global AI Mobility Narrative? - simplywall.st

Aug 8, 2026

Baidu Begins Testing Robotaxis In London - Silicon UK

Jul 31, 2026