Neolix
新石器无人车
Neolix (新石器无人车) is a Chinese L4 autonomous-vehicle company focused on urban logistics, founded in 2018 by Yu Enyuan, a logistics industry veteran who built the company "from inside the courier business, picking up technology" rather than the reverse, as Yunqi Capital put it . The company specializes in RoboVan—autonomous delivery vehicles sized between robotaxis and trucks—and has positioned itself as the world's largest L4-level RoboVan fleet operator .
Neolix has raised multiple landmark rounds, including a $1 billion C+ round in early 2025 and a $600 million+ Series D later that year led by UAE's Stone Venture, which set a record for China's autonomous driving sector . Yunqi Capital led its Series A in 2019 and has continued to back it through subsequent rounds . By late 2025, the company had surpassed 10,000 cumulative L4 vehicle deliveries, deployed across 300+ cities in 15 countries, and logged over 100 million autonomous kilometers . Its product line spans the X3, X6, and X12 models (3–12 cubic meters), and it has begun commercializing a map-free L4 system plus an in-house "Neolix-VA" vision-action foundation model .
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