Recently, Autowise.ai and Beijing Enterprises Urban Resources Group Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, stock code: 3718. HK, referred as the “BEUR”) officially established a strategic partnership. Leveraging their respective technological strengths and industrial resources, the two parties plan to deepen cooperation over the next five years in areas such as autonomous driving market development, integrated smart sanitation solutions, and commercial operations.
The partnership, valued at 3 billion yuan, aims to promote the widespread application of autonomous driving technology in smart city construction and achieve large-scale commercial deployment both domestically and internationally.
A Powerhouse Collaboration to Set Industry Benchmarks
With the continuous advancement of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technologies, and the refinement of related policies, the industry has become focused on how autonomous driving can empower smart city development and enhance urban public services. Globally, there is a strong push to integrate autonomous driving and AI technologies with urban management, accelerating the application of autonomous sanitation equipment and the transformation of the sanitation industry.
To drive the sanitation industry toward greener and smarter practices, government departments have introduced a series of policy measures. In February 2024, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development released the “Smart Sanitation System Construction Standards” (draft for comments), providing comprehensive and detailed guidance for the construction of smart sanitation systems.
Additionally, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with three other departments, issued the “Notice on Piloting Access and Road Travel for Intelligent and Connected Vehicles,” offering robust policy support for the pilot operation of intelligent and connected vehicles (including autonomous sanitation vehicles) in designated areas. Local governments in Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangdong have also responded to national initiatives by introducing policies to encourage the development of smart sanitation and autonomous driving, creating a favorable policy environment for the industry.
Against this backdrop, Autowise.ai and BEUR have formed a strategic partnership, committing to a 3 billion yuan multi-dimensional collaboration over five years. Aligned with the national strategy of developing new productive forces, the two parties will jointly advance the research, development, and application of integrated smart sanitation solutions.Combining Autowise.ai’s expertise in autonomous driving technology with BEUR‘s experience in sanitation services, they aim to create multiple smart sanitation projects and autonomous driving solutions, unlocking the potential of autonomous driving to enhance productivity. With favorable policies in place, this partnership will accelerate the large-scale application of autonomous sanitation equipment and drive the industry toward higher quality, efficiency, and sustainability.
Beijing Enterprises Urban Resources, a flagship company under Beijing Enterprises Group, is dedicated to “Making Living Environments Better” by providing one-stop services in environmental sanitation, including consulting, design, investment, construction, and operation. With a strong industry background and extensive operational experience, the company has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Enterprises in the Sanitation Industry” for consecutive years and ranked first in the “China Cleaning Industry Top 100 Brands” in 2022. Currently, BEUR operates in 25 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions across China (including Hong Kong), managing over 150 urban service projects, serving more than 300 million square meters, and benefiting over 30 million people. In 2024, the company achieved remarkable performance, securing annualized contracts worth 1.85 billion yuan and total contracts worth 8.1 billion yuan, topping the environmental services industry.
As a global leader in autonomous driving commercialization, Autowise.ai excels in both technological innovation and commercial operations. In the sanitation sector, Autowise.ai has pioneered the transition from retrofitting to pre-installed mass production technology. With deep expertise in core modules such as perception, positioning, planning, and execution, as well as its full-stack self-developed L4 autonomous driving technology, Autowise.ai has launched products like the autonomous sanitation vehicle Autowise V3, the autonomous platform Roboard-X, the remote operation platform Radar24, and the multi-purpose autonomous vehicle Autowise V1, accelerating the large-scale deployment of autonomous driving technology in sanitation scenarios.
The Autowise V3, Autowise.ai’s first fully self-developed autonomous sweeping vehicle, has become the most widely used autonomous sweeper on the market, thanks to its leading autonomous driving and cleaning capabilities. The Roboard-X, an industry-leading shared autonomous chassis, enables flexible adaptation to multiple scenarios, meeting customer needs for short-distance shuttle, logistics, and cleaning in a single environment. The Autowise V1, the industry’s first multi-purpose autonomous sanitation vehicle, features an innovative “1 chassis + 3 attachments” design, allowing flexible switching between sweeping, washing, and waste transportation functions. It achieves fully autonomous operation, including self-start diagnostics, scheduled tasks, waste disposal, and automatic charging/refueling. The introduction of Platforma-X addresses the cost barriers to large-scale deployment of autonomous sanitation vehicles, reducing overall operational costs by nearly 70% and ushering in a fully autonomous era for smart sanitation.
Deepening Global Commercialization of Autonomous Driving
With extensive scenario data accumulation and rigorous market validation, Autowise.ai’s autonomous driving technology has demonstrated exceptional stability and reliability, driving the maturity of autonomous driving technology and leading its large-scale commercial deployment.
As the earliest and longest-standing player in the autonomous sanitation sector, Autowise.ai holds the world’s first autonomous sweeping vehicle test license. The Autowise V1 obtained the first domestic public road driving permit for autonomous sanitation equipment, while the Autowise V3 secured the first autonomous sanitation equipment test licensein Hangzhou. Thanks to early road permits from multiple local governments, a cost-effective product service matrix (reducing operator vehicle costs by 50% and overall operational costs by nearly 70%), and extensive operational experience in sanitation scenarios, Autowise.ai has achieved rapid, large-scale commercial deployment and successfully developed several major benchmark projects worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Currently, Autowise.ai’s products and services are in regular commercial operation in over 30 cities worldwide, and the company is leading the drafting of technical standards in the autonomous driving field.
Additionally, Autowise.ai has demonstrated strong international collaboration and business expansion capabilities, actively building a comprehensive cooperative ecosystem with industry partners. This year, Autowise.ai signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Tus Environmental Science and Technology Development Co., LTD.With their smart sanitation projects entering full application stages in Xianning, Gaoyou, and Yichang, significantly improving the efficiency of sanitation operations.
In overseas markets, Autowise.ai has partnered with Ajlan & Bros Group, a Saudi international diversified group, to provide cross-scenario, highly reusable autonomous driving platform products to government and sanitation agencies in the Middle East. The first commercial operation project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has received widespread recognition from Dubai Municipality’s Waste Operation Department and other relevant authorities.
Based on this deep collaboration, the two parties will integrate their technological strengths and industrial resources, increase investment in AI and autonomous driving R&D, and jointly build a smart sanitation industry cluster to provide comprehensive and efficient integrated sanitation solutions for smart cities. In the future, they plan to establish multiple benchmark smart sanitation projects domestically, expand into the domestic market, and promote the innovative model of mega-city smart sanitation operations overseas, achieving large-scale commercial deployment in international markets.
The signing of this strategic cooperation agreement marks a solid step forward in the deep collaboration between Autowise.ai and Beijing Enterprises Urban Resources in autonomous driving technology and smart sanitation. Moving forward, the two parties will work together to seize industry opportunities in the global wave of smart city construction and autonomous driving development, driving the deep application and widespread adoption of autonomous driving technology in the sanitation sector and delivering intelligent, efficient, and reliable autonomous driving solutions to global customers.
