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Key Takeaways
- China and the U.S. dominate the 2025 robotaxi landscape, with multiple providers operating across dozens of cities.
- Robotaxi programs are gaining global reach, with active services emerging in South Korea and the UAE
The rise of autonomous driving technology is reshaping mobility, not just for businesses, but also individuals.
In this infographic, we’ve mapped every robotaxi service operating in 2025, highlighting the progress being made by China and the United States.
Data & Discussion
The data for this visualization comes from Statista. It lists active robotaxi programs by company, country, and city, as of June 2025.
| Company | Country | Cities |
|---|---|---|
| Waymo | 🇺🇸 USA | Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin (TX), Atlanta |
| Tesla | 🇺🇸 USA | Austin (TX) |
| SWA Mobility | 🇰🇷 South Korea | Seoul |
| Apollo | 🇨🇳 China | Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan, Hefei, Yangquan, Wuzhen, Chengdu |
| AutoX | 🇨🇳 China | Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou |
| Deeproute.ai | 🇨🇳 China | Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou |
| Pony.ai | 🇨🇳 China | Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen |
| SAIC | 🇨🇳 China | Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen |
| QCraft | 🇨🇳 China | Suzhou |
| WeRide | 🇨🇳 China 🇦🇪 UAE |
Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Abu Dhabi, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai |
| DiDi | 🇨🇳 China | Shanghai, Guangzhou |
China Leads in Robotaxi Coverage
China is the clear front‑runner based on this data, with eight companies operating across 16 cities.
One of its leading companies is Apollo, Baidu’s autonomous driving initiative, which runs in 10 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. The company’s name was inspired by NASA’s Apollo moon-landing program, and is intended to be an open-source autonomous driving platform.
On July 15, 2025, Baidu announced that Apollo would be partnering with Uber to deploy thousands of self-driving taxis in Asia and the Middle East.
Waymo is the Leading U.S. Robotaxi Service
In the U.S., Waymo is active in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta. Originally launched as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, it was spun off as Waymo in 2016.
Waymo is considered the frontrunner in America’s robotaxi space, with roughly 1,500 vehicles operating across the aforementioned cities. The company announced at the start of 2025 that it would be expanding to San Diego, Las Vegas, Miami, and Tokyo (its first international expansion).
Like many of its rivals, Waymo’s self-driving cars utilize a combination of lidar, radar, and cameras to perceive their surroundings.
Tesla is an outlier in this regard, opting to rely on cameras for its self-driving tech. While Musk has been critical of lidar sensors in the past, his company was recently revealed as a major customer of Luminar, a maker of lidar sensors.
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