Momenta Robotaxi Secures Shenzhen Road Testing Permit, Accelerating Global Advanced Autonomous Driving Expansion

Autonomous driving company Momenta announced that its Robotaxi has received road testing authorization for intelligent connected vehicles in Shenzhen and will soon begin on-road trials in the city. Shenzhen becomes the latest Chinese city where Momenta’s Robotaxi operations will be deployed, following Shanghai, Suzhou, and Wuxi. Previously, in January 2026, the company obtained road testing and pilot application permits for intelligent connected vehicles in Wuxi. Overseas, Momenta has already launched Robotaxi testing in Munich, Germany, and Abu Dhabi, UAE, and is actively expanding into other European markets, as well as Singapore and Japan. Its joint Robotaxi initiative with Uber has confirmed Munich as the inaugural city, with commercial operations scheduled to commence in 2026. Additionally, Momenta has established strategic partnerships with mobility platforms such as Grab, Lumo, and Enjoy Auto, as well as automakers including Mercedes-Benz. On the technology front, in April 2026, Momenta unveiled its R7 reinforcement learning world model and deployed it in real-world L4 autonomous driving applications. The model features a three-layer architecture: a world model pre-training layer that compresses physical laws, a simulation layer that generates and evaluates long-tail scenarios, and a reinforcement learning layer that optimizes autonomous decision-making. Its core strength lies in deep physical-world understanding—enabling comprehension of object properties, causal relationships in motion, and interaction possibilities—thereby enhancing the vehicle’s prediction and planning capabilities in complex environments. On July 8, 2026, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.ERA 9X became the world’s first mass-produced vehicle equipped with Momenta’s R7 model, marking the technology’s entry into large-scale vehicle deployment. To date, Momenta’s mass-production ADAS solutions have been installed in over 800,000 vehicles, spanning more than 70 delivered models, with定点 (design wins) exceeding 200 models across more than ten countries and regions. The company employs a “mass-production vehicles and autonomous vehicles co-evolution” strategy, leveraging rare but challenging real-world scenarios collected from mass-market vehicles to refine algorithms for its autonomous driving services. Momenta stated its goal is to build a foundational Physical AI platform to support large-scale deployment across passenger cars, Robovans, Robotrucks, and Robotaxis—and gradually extend into broader robotics applications.