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Apollo Go (Baidu)
The volume leader by cumulative rides, and the operator with the most credible shot at a large European public-transport contract: its AmiGo joint venture with Swiss Post's PostBus covers an 80 km² permitted area across three Swiss cantons. Its RT6 is the clearest statement that robotaxi economics are a manufacturing problem. Chinese regulators imposed a cooling-off period after a March 2026 fleet-wide stall in Wuhan.
Furthest stage: Road testing China (Beijing) Owner: Baidu
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Cities carrying passengers
Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 2 tracked here. 5 more outside the US and Europe.
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Cities on the tracker
2 as operator.
2
Countries
United Kingdom, Switzerland.
Where Apollo Go (Baidu) is live
Every city on the tracker that Apollo Go (Baidu) touches — as operator, as the app the ride is sold in, or as the stack underneath. A dot marks a city, not a service area.
- Road testingVehicles on public roads; mapping or staff-only rides, no public passengers.
Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Apollo Go (Baidu)'s own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.
City by city
Apollo Go (Baidu)'s stage in each city, furthest along first. Open a row for the launch date, the supervision level and the sources.
Europe0 with passengers · 2 tracked
London United Kingdom
Four operators in one city, and the only European market where a US, a British and two Chinese stack all compete. Every vehicle still carries a TfL-licensed driver, because the UK's driverless passenger permits only opened in May 2026.
Robotaxi
- Apollo GoTestingJul 2026RT6 fleet testing in Brent with FREENOW (Lyft); commercial service targeted 2027.
Sources: Uber IR · TechCrunch · electrive · Every operator in London
St. Gallen Appenzell · Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland
The largest automated public-transport project planned in Europe: Baidu's Apollo Go and Swiss Post's PostBus running 'AmiGo' across an 80 km² FEDRO-permitted area in three cantons, using RT6 vehicles whose steering wheel comes out once driver-out operation starts. Test fleet since December 2025, regular service by Q1 2027.
Robotaxi
- Apollo GoTestingDec 2025With PostBus (Swiss Post); FEDRO special permit, 80 km², regular operations no later than Q1 2027.
Sources: Electrek · Every operator in St. Gallen
Rest of the world5 cities, context only
| City | Country | Operators | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuhan | China | Apollo Go | Driverless | The largest driverless fleet in any single city; Apollo Go has passed 23 million cumulative rides worldwide. |
| Beijing | China | Apollo Go, Pony.ai, WeRide | Driverless | Paid driver-out service from several operators under municipal permits. |
| Hong Kong | China (SAR) | Apollo Go | Testing | First driverless test permit issued for a right-hand-drive market, July 2026 — the technical bridge to the UK. |
| Dubai | UAE | WeRide, Apollo Go | Driverless | WeRide began fare-charging driver-out rides via Uber on 31 March 2026 in Jumeirah and Umm Suqeim; Apollo Go followed in July, on Uber from 20 August. |
| Seoul | South Korea | Apollo Go, Pony.ai | Testing | Apollo Go extended into South Korea in February 2026. |
Apollo Go (Baidu) in the news
2 entries from the tracker's timeline, most recent first.
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Baidu's Apollo Go starts London road tests
RT6 vehicles run supervised in the borough of Brent with FREENOW by Lyft, targeting commercial service in 2027. electrive
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Switzerland clears Apollo Go for an 80 km² L4 area
FEDRO's special permit covers three eastern cantons for AmiGo, the Baidu–PostBus service — Europe's largest planned automated transport footprint. Electrek
The company
What Apollo Go (Baidu) is, who owns it, and what it has actually deployed — the same record as the glossary entry on the tracker.
- Type
- Operator
- Headquarters
- China (Beijing)
- Owner
- Baidu
- Founded
- 2021 (as Apollo Go)
- Approach
- Lidar-led L4; RT6 purpose-built vehicle with a removable steering wheel
- Vehicles
- RT6 (6th gen), built to a reported sub-$30,000 cost
- Scale
- ~1,000 vehicles · 23M+ cumulative rides · weekly peak above 350,000 orders
- Where
- Wuhan, Beijing and other Chinese cities; Dubai (driverless commercial); testing in Hong Kong, London and eastern Switzerland
- Rides sold through
- Lyft / FREENOW