Foton and Zhuoyu Technology Join Forces to Build Full-Scenario Intelligent Driving for Commercial Vehicles
As the leading Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer, Foton operates the country's most complete commercial vehicle product matrix, a fully integrated vehicle R&D and manufacturing system, and market channels that span the globe, giving it full-scenario commercial vehicle integration capability and large-scale production capacity. Zhuoyu Technology, a leading mobile physical AI company, has built a unified mobile intelligence foundation that can be reused across vertical domains. With full-stack in-house development and proven mass-production experience in driving assistance, Zhuoyu has formed a platform advantage around its native multimodal foundation model, multi-sensor fusion and high-performance domain controllers, allowing its solutions to adapt efficiently to heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles and unmanned logistics vehicles alike.
Lu Zhenghua, General Manager of Foton, said the agreement is a key step in executing the company's three strategies of "full internationalization, full new-energy transition and full intelligentization," and carries milestone significance. Combining Foton's accumulated strength in vehicle manufacturing and globalized operations with Zhuoyu's intelligent driving capabilities will create genuinely complementary advantages. "We remain oriented by customer value, converting intelligent driving technology into real operating value so that customers can cut costs, raise efficiency and improve transport safety," Lu said. "That accelerates our transition from a commercial vehicle manufacturer into an intelligent commercial vehicle total-solution provider, and moves the industry forward toward intelligence, higher value and globalization."
Shen Shaojie, CEO of Zhuoyu Technology, framed the end goal in three questions: is transport safer, is the driver's work easier, and is operating cost lower. "The unified mobile intelligence foundation and our high-comprehension large model that Zhuoyu has built are being jointly adapted with Foton for heavy-truck, light-commercial and unmanned-logistics scenarios, supporting staged deployment from trunk-line highways through to urban distribution," he said. Zhuoyu, he added, is prepared to travel this road with Foton over the long term, turning mobile physical AI into intelligent productivity that stands up to real-world scrutiny — moving commercial vehicle intelligent driving from merely usable to genuinely easy to use and used every day, while jointly accelerating the intelligentization and overseas expansion of China's commercial vehicles.
The cooperation rests on highly complementary industrial and technological strengths and focuses on making intelligent driving work across the full range of commercial vehicle scenarios. Its scope covers highway and national-road Navigate Assist for heavy trucks, inter-city highway NOA (Navigate on Autopilot), unmanned logistics Robovans, urban NOA for light commercial vehicles, the promotion of advanced intelligent driving in overseas markets, and L3/L4 intelligent connected vehicle market-access pilot programs.
Under the agreement, the two parties will jointly develop intelligent driving solutions matched to heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles and unmanned logistics vehicles. Zhuoyu contributes its model algorithms, multi-sensor fusion and domain-control hardware, while Foton contributes vehicle-level control, chassis adaptation and whole-vehicle integration, with technology iteration and mass production advanced in phases. The joint projects will begin in highway trunk-line scenarios and progressively extend into urban roads and national roads with their far more complex conditions, while the supply chain is continuously optimized to deliver cost-effective, scalable commercial vehicle intelligent driving products. In parallel, the partners will work together on compliance pilot applications and demonstration operations for advanced autonomous driving, and will leverage their respective resources to develop overseas markets including the Middle East, South America and Australia–New Zealand, exploring international demand for Chinese intelligent commercial vehicle technology and products.
This strategic partnership brings together China's foremost commercial vehicle manufacturer and a leading mobile physical AI company. Going forward, both sides will advance project implementation in orderly fashion, deepen technological synergy, product co-creation and joint market development, complete their full-scenario commercial vehicle intelligent driving product lineup, break through the technical bottlenecks that have limited intelligentization in real commercial applications, and strengthen core product competitiveness to drive high-quality, intelligence-led growth across the industry.
About Foton
Founded in 1996 and guided by the vision of becoming a world-class vehicle enterprise, Foton is China's commercial vehicle manufacturer with the broadest product range and the largest scale. Its business spans complete vehicles, components and a commercial ecosystem, with products and services reaching more than 140 countries and regions. Foton has ranked first in Chinese commercial vehicle sales for 21 consecutive years and first in overseas sales for 15 consecutive years, with cumulative volume exceeding 13 million units. In R&D it operates 18 research centers and 52 intelligent manufacturing bases worldwide covering key fields such as new energy and intelligent technology, and its test and validation capability is among the most advanced in China.
About Zhuoyu Technology
Zhuoyu is committed to becoming a world-class mobile physical AI company. Starting in 2016, it has focused on the research, development and application of mobile intelligent technology. Built on a proprietary native multimodal foundation model and generative AI, Zhuoyu has created a unified mobile intelligence technology foundation that adapts efficiently to multiple scenarios. It provides vehicle manufacturers with open, customizable, production-oriented driving assistance solutions covering L2 and above, and also supplies underlying technology to autonomous mobile robots across diverse scenarios — extending intelligent mobility from ground level into near-ground space and advancing the widespread adoption and industrialization of mobile intelligence.
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