Firms team to scale level 4-robotaxi fleets across Asia

“Kaohsiung City is proud to support the vision of building Taiwan into a global leader in smart transportation and physical AI innovation,” said Chen Chi-mai, mayor of Kaohsiung.

“The collaboration between Foxconn, Foxtron and Nvidia represents an important milestone in accelerating Taiwan’s transformation into a world-class smart city ecosystem. As Taiwan’s major industrial and innovation hub, Kaohsiung is actively investing in smart infrastructure, green mobility and AI-driven urban development.”

Meanwhile, VinFast is working with Autobrains to bring level 4 vehicles built on Nvidia Drive Hyperion to Southeast Asia, combining VinFast’s vehicle development and manufacturing capabilities with Autobrains’ autonomous driving software stack.

“Vehicles are becoming robots, and robotaxi fleets will require AI infrastructure that can perceive, reason and operate safely in the real world”

“Advanced mobility shouldn’t be a luxury,” said Duong Nguyen, deputy CEO of Adas at VinFast Global. “VinFast is committed to building scalable and accessible autonomous driving solutions through collaboration with global technology leaders. Together with Autobrains and Nvidia, we are exploring a practical and cost-efficient path toward level 4 mobility for Southeast Asia’s highly dynamic real-world traffic environments.”

In Europe, Uber is also working with Autobrains to launch a robotaxi programme in Munich built on Nvidia Drive Hyperion, integrating Autobrains’ agentic AI autonomous driving software to support scalable, level 4-ready robotaxi operations. The effort further expands Uber’s growing reach in the European ride-hailing market, with more details on the selected automaker to be announced later this year.

“For automakers and autonomy developers, the challenge is not just building autonomous vehicles – it’s bringing them into a commercial network where they can reliably serve riders at scale,” said Sarfraz Maredia, global head of autonomous mobility and delivery at Uber. “This programme creates a new path to do that by combining vehicle-agnostic autonomy, leading AI compute and Uber’s ride-hailing platform.”