PATEO (02889) has announced that on April 22, 2026, it held a signing ceremony with Horizon Robotics at the product launch event for Horizon's Xingkong®, China's first cabin-driving integrated vehicle intelligence chip. The company has become one of the first batch of signed customers for the Horizon Xingkong® chip and has also entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Horizon Robotics. By leveraging their complementary strengths in the smart vehicle sector, the two parties will promote the integrated innovation of AI technology in smart cockpits, intelligent driving, and robotics, jointly creating platform-level solutions for automotive intelligence and localization.
The collaboration will involve in-depth cooperation in both technical and commercial aspects. The partners plan to jointly explore cost-effective, domestically produced integrated cabin-driving solutions to advance the democratization of vehicle intelligence. They will engage in deep collaboration within the intelligent driving domain, supporting the synergy between smart cockpit and advanced driving functions. This aims to equip vehicles with intelligent agent capabilities such as cross-modal understanding, continuous planning, and full-scene self-adaptation, thereby advancing the evolution of automobiles from automated products to intelligent agent platforms capable of active learning and autonomous action.
The cooperation will focus on promoting the mass production application of the platform in cost-effective models from mainstream automakers. A key objective is to provide solutions for international expansion, particularly targeting overseas markets, thereby jointly assisting global automakers in their cross-domain upgrades within the intelligence sector and cultivating new growth opportunities for both parties in intelligent driving.
Furthermore, the two companies will collaborate to build a highly reliable, low-latency, and strongly coordinated intelligent control system for robotics. They will work to scale the application of technological achievements in scenarios such as smart mobility, home services, and commercial services. This partnership aims to create a new ecosystem where smart vehicles and embodied intelligence converge, jointly exploring the vast potential of the future intelligent industry.
Additionally, the partners will share high-quality customer resources domestically and internationally, jointly plan their global expansion strategy, develop solutions tailored to local market needs, expand the supply chain for global automakers, and achieve the worldwide export of the "China Solution" for indigenous intelligent vehicle technology.