Sinian Zhijia Runs 1,000+ Autonomous Trucks for 6 Years, Pivots to Heavy-Load PhysicalAI
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-09-09
An interview with Sinian Zhijia founder He Bei traces the company's shift from port autonomous driving to heavy-load PhysicalAI.
- Founded in 2020, the company operates 1,000+ autonomous transport robots across ports, rail yards, chemical plants, metallurgy and logistics hubs, accumulating PB-scale multimodal data.
- He Bei notes autonomous driving talent is migrating into robotics, reusing skills in perception, prediction, control, data loops and simulation.
- The company upgraded its stack with VLA and a world-model approach, decomposing recurring tasks like gantry-crane transfers into "atomic operations," sharply cutting delivery time; some customers now budget for hundreds of vehicles.
- Closed-scenario fleet data has converged, so focus is shifting to novel samples (new cargo types, rare anomalies), with simulation used to replay low-frequency events.
- Yueda Capital took a strategic stake in September, adding industrial cooperation in vehicle adaptation and supply chain; 2025 customer count equals the prior five years combined.
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