Foton × Zhuoyu Technology: A Powerhouse Alliance to Build Full-Scenario Intelligent Driving for Commercial Vehicles
As the leading enterprise in China's commercial vehicle industry, Foton Motor owns the country's most complete commercial vehicle product matrix, a fully integrated vehicle R&D and manufacturing system, and market channels covering the globe, giving it the capability for full-scenario commercial vehicle integrated development and large-scale mass production. Zhuoyu Technology, a leading mobile physical AI company, has built a unified mobile intelligence foundation that can be reused across vertical categories. It possesses full-stack self-developed driver-assistance technology with mass-production experience, and has formed a platform-level advantage through core capabilities such as a native multimodal foundation model, multi-sensor fusion technology and high-performance domain controllers, enabling efficient adaptation to commercial carriers including heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles and unmanned logistics vehicles.
Lu Zhenghua, General Manager of Foton Motor, stated that this strategic cooperation is a key step in implementing Foton Motor's strategy of "comprehensive internationalization, comprehensive new-energy transition and comprehensive intelligentization," and carries milestone significance. By relying on Foton's accumulated strengths in vehicle manufacturing and global operations and layering on Zhuoyu Technology's intelligent driving capabilities, the two sides will achieve complementary advantages. "We stay oriented around customer value, working to convert intelligent driving technology into real operational value — helping customers cut costs, raise efficiency and improve transport safety, accelerating our transformation from a 'commercial vehicle manufacturer' into an 'intelligent commercial vehicle total solution provider,' and joining hands to move the commercial vehicle industry toward intelligentization, high-endization and globalization," he said.
Shen Shaojie, CEO of Zhuoyu Technology, said that the intelligentization of commercial vehicles ultimately has to answer three questions: whether transport becomes safer, whether the driver's work becomes easier, and whether operating costs come down. The platform capabilities Zhuoyu has built — a unified mobile intelligence foundation and a highly perceptive large model — will be jointly adapted with Foton Motor to heavy-truck, light-commercial and unmanned logistics scenarios, supporting phased deployment from long-haul trunk lines to urban distribution. "Zhuoyu Technology is willing to walk the long road together with Foton Motor, turning mobile physical AI into an intelligent productive force that can withstand real-world scrutiny, moving commercial vehicle intelligent driving from 'usable' to 'easy to use' and 'used every day,' and jointly accelerating the intelligentization and overseas expansion of China's commercial vehicles to lead the industry's upgrade," he said.
This cooperation is grounded in the highly complementary industrial and technological advantages of both parties and focuses on the deployment of intelligent driving across all commercial vehicle scenarios. The scope of cooperation covers core areas including highway and national-road Navigate-Assisted Driving for heavy trucks, intercity highway NOA, unmanned logistics vehicles (Robovan), urban NOA for light commercial vehicles, the promotion of advanced intelligent driving in overseas markets, and access pilot programs for L3/L4 intelligent connected vehicles.
Under the agreement, the two parties will jointly develop intelligent driving solutions adapted to heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles, unmanned logistics vehicles and other vehicle types. Leveraging Zhuoyu's model algorithms, multi-sensor fusion and domain-control hardware technology, combined with Foton Motor's strengths in vehicle-level control, chassis adaptation and whole-vehicle integration, they will advance technology iteration and mass production in phases. The joint projects will start from highway trunk-line scenarios and gradually extend to urban roads, national roads and other complex scenarios, continuously optimizing the supply chain system to create commercial vehicle intelligent driving products that are cost-effective and scalable. At the same time, the two sides will work together to advance compliance pilot applications and demonstration operations for advanced autonomous driving and, drawing on their respective resources, jointly develop overseas markets including the Middle East, South America and Australia/New Zealand, exploring opportunities for the overseas application of Chinese commercial vehicle intelligent technology and products.
This strategic cooperation is a powerhouse alliance between a leader in commercial vehicle manufacturing and a mobile physical AI enterprise. Going forward, the two parties will advance project implementation in an orderly manner, continuously deepen technological synergy, co-create products and co-build markets, complete their full-scenario commercial vehicle intelligent driving product lineup, break through the intelligent technology bottlenecks of commercial use cases, strengthen core product competitiveness, and jointly drive high-quality, intelligent development of the industry.
About Foton Motor
Founded in 1996 and driven by the vision of "striving to build a world-class vehicle enterprise," Foton Motor is China's commercial vehicle company with the most complete 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 worldwide. In China's commercial vehicle sales, Foton Motor has ranked No. 1 domestically for 21 consecutive years and No. 1 in overseas markets for 15 consecutive years, with cumulative sales exceeding 13 million units. In R&D, Foton Motor operates 18 R&D centers and 52 intelligent manufacturing bases worldwide, covering key fields such as new energy and intelligent technology, with testing and validation capabilities at a domestically leading level.
About Zhuoyu Technology
Zhuoyu is committed to becoming a world-class mobile physical AI company.
Starting in 2016, Zhuoyu has focused on the research, development and application of mobile intelligent technology. Relying on its proprietary native multimodal foundation model and generative AI technology, the company builds a unified mobile intelligence technology base that adapts efficiently to multiple scenarios. It not only provides vehicle manufacturers with open, customizable, mass-production-oriented advanced driver-assistance solutions (covering L2 and above), but is also dedicated to supplying underlying technology for autonomous mobile robots across different scenarios — enabling full-domain intelligent mobility ecosystem empowerment from ground level to near-ground space, and advancing the widespread adoption and industrial deployment of mobile intelligence.
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