Foton Motor × Zhuoyu Technology: A Powerhouse Alliance Building Full-Domain Intelligent Driving for Commercial Vehicles
On October 8, 2026, BAIC Foton Automobile Co., Ltd. ("Foton Motor") and Shenzhen Zhuoyu Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zhuoyu Technology") formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Drawing on their respective core strengths, the two parties will carry out comprehensive and in-depth strategic cooperation in the field of high-level intelligent driving for commercial vehicles, jointly accelerating the scaled mass production and commercial deployment of intelligent driving technology and supporting the intelligent and connected transformation of the commercial vehicle industry.
As the leading enterprise in China's domestic commercial vehicle industry, Foton Motor possesses 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 the capability for full-scenario commercial vehicle integration development and scaled mass production. Zhuoyu Technology, a leading mobile physical AI company, has built a unified mobile intelligence foundation that can be reused across vertical domains. It brings full-stack in-house development and mass-production experience in driver assistance, and has formed a platformized advantage through core capabilities such as a native multimodal foundation model, multi-sensor fusion technology and high-performance domain controllers, allowing efficient adaptation to heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles, unmanned logistics vehicles and other commercial carriers.
Lu Zhenghua, General Manager of Foton Motor, said that this strategic cooperation is a key step in Foton Motor's implementation of its "full-scale internationalization, full-scale new energy, and full-scale intelligentization" strategy and carries milestone significance. By combining Foton's accumulated strength in vehicle manufacturing and global operations with Zhuoyu Technology's intelligent driving capabilities, the two sides will create complementary advantages. "We stay guided by customer value, working to convert intelligent driving technology into real operating value — helping customers cut costs and raise efficiency and improving transport safety. This accelerates our transformation from a 'commercial vehicle manufacturer' into a 'provider of comprehensive intelligent commercial vehicle solutions,' and we will work hand in hand to move the commercial vehicle industry toward intelligentization, high-end products and globalization," he said.
Shen Shaojie, CEO of Zhuoyu Technology, said that the intelligentization of commercial vehicles must ultimately answer 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 and other platform capabilities that Zhuoyu has built will be jointly adapted with Foton Motor to scenarios including heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles and unmanned logistics, supporting phased deployment from trunk-line highways to urban delivery. Zhuoyu is willing to walk alongside Foton Motor for the long term, turning mobile physical AI into an intelligent productive force that can withstand scrutiny — moving commercial vehicle intelligent driving from merely usable to genuinely useful and routinely used — and jointly accelerating the intelligentization and overseas expansion of China's commercial vehicles to lead the industry upgrade."
This cooperation is built on the highly complementary industrial and technological strengths of both parties and focuses on delivering full-scenario intelligent driving for commercial vehicles. Its scope covers highway and national-road pilot assistance for heavy trucks, intercity highway NOA (navigate on autopilot), the Robovan unmanned logistics vehicle, urban NOA for light commercial vehicles, the overseas promotion of high-level intelligent driving, and access pilot programs for L3/L4 intelligent connected vehicles.
Under the agreement, the two sides will jointly develop intelligent driving solutions adapted to heavy trucks, light commercial vehicles and unmanned logistics vehicles. Leveraging Zhuoyu's model algorithms, multi-sensor fusion and domain-control hardware technology together with Foton Motor's strengths in whole-vehicle control, chassis adaptation and vehicle integration, they will advance technical iteration and mass production in phases. The joint projects will start with highway trunk-line scenarios and gradually extend to urban roads, national highways and other complex scenarios, while continuously optimizing the supply chain to create cost-effective, scalable commercial vehicle intelligent driving products. At the same time, the two parties will work in concert to advance compliance pilot applications and demonstration operations for high-level autonomous driving and, drawing on their respective resource advantages, jointly expand overseas markets including the Middle East, South America, Australia and New Zealand, exploring opportunities for the overseas application of Chinese commercial vehicle intelligent technology and products.
This strategic cooperation represents a powerhouse alliance between a leader in commercial vehicle manufacturing and a mobile physical AI company. Looking ahead, the two parties will advance project implementation in an orderly manner, continuously deepen technical synergy, product co-creation and market co-building, refine the full-scenario intelligent driving product portfolio for commercial vehicles, break through the technical bottlenecks of intelligentization in commercial application scenarios, strengthen core product competitiveness, and jointly drive the industry's intelligent development toward higher quality.
About Foton Motor
Founded in 1996 and guided by the vision of "striving to build a world-class vehicle enterprise," Foton Motor is China's most product-complete and largest commercial vehicle enterprise. Its business spans complete vehicles, components and a commercial ecosystem, with products and services reaching more than 140 countries and regions worldwide. In sales terms, Foton Motor has ranked first in China's commercial vehicle industry for 21 consecutive years and first 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 around the world, covering key fields such as new energy and intelligentization, 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, the company has focused on the research, development and application of mobile intelligence technology. Relying on its proprietary native multimodal foundation model and generative AI technology, Zhuoyu builds a unified mobile intelligence technology foundation that adapts efficiently to multiple scenarios. It not only provides vehicle makers with open, customizable and mass-production-oriented advanced driver assistance solutions (covering L2 and above), but also aims to supply underlying technology for autonomous mobile robots across different scenarios — delivering full-domain intelligent mobility empowerment from the ground up to near-ground space and advancing the widespread adoption and industrialization of mobile intelligence.