Since April of this year, there have been reports of resignations from the positions of Vice President of Technology, Ai Rui, and Vice President of Product, Cai Na. It is reported that Airui has joined the drone company Daotong Intelligence.
According to the information, Airui graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree and joined Baidu after obtaining a PhD from the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Since 2016, Airui has been responsible for the development of product prototypes for L3 high-speed autonomous driving and L4 autonomous parking in Baidu's Intelligent Automotive Division. In 2020, iResearch resigned from Baidu. In 2021, Airui joined Wumo Zhixing as the Technical VP
At the beginning of its establishment, Wumo Zhixing proposed the "Windmill Strategy", which consists of three business lines: passenger cars, low-speed unmanned vehicles, and intelligent hardware.
At the end of 2024, with the backing of the Great Wall, Wumo Zhixing emphasized its crisis awareness in its fifth anniversary letter to all employees, and mentioned the need to ensure the completion of mass production and delivery of Wumo Zhixing's second-generation intelligent driving products, and to create the most cost-effective urban map free NOA solution in the industry. However, due to slower than expected production progress, the company was embroiled in rumors of high-level turbulence at the beginning of 2025.
Daotong Intelligence was founded in 2014 by Li Hongjing. Daotong Intelligent's products mainly include industry drones, consumer drones, and drone industry ecosystem software and hardware products.
