QCraft

QCraft is an autonomous driving company founded in 2019. Its timeline says it started in Silicon Valley and then moved its work to China, with its first listed office in Beijing. The company pursues a dual-track strategy of L2+ and L4 autonomous driving, using world models and reinforcement learning as its core technology. Its stated mission is a brighter future with safe and beneficial AI, and its vision is to become a general physical AI company.

Driving products

• L2+ driver assistance: QCraft QPilot 2.0 and QCraft Cruise for urban and highway assisted driving.
• L4 vehicles: Robovan, Robotaxi and Robobus for driverless operation.
• Simulation toolchain: QCraft Matrix, a simulation-centred research and development toolchain.
• Autonomous logistics: an entry into L4 logistics, with an initial order for 100 vehicles signed.

Offices and engineering

The company lists offices in Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai and Jinhua in China, and a European headquarters in Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany. Its timeline lists a first generation driving solution in 2020, an L4 hardware generation developed with NVIDIA in 2021, a strategic partnership with Horizon Robotics in 2022, an urban and highway assisted driving system on Journey 5 chips in 2023, and a global strategy with Qualcomm in 2025. It also records L4 deployments across several cities and mass production contracts with carmakers.

Recent milestones

In January 2026 the company announced an end-to-end urban NOA system in mass production on a single Journey 6M chip, and it unveiled a VLA and World Model unified architecture. In April it released a physics AI model built on a world model and reinforcement learning, and it presented QCraft Cruise MAX, which the site rates at over 500 TOPS.

Key facts

• Based in: Beijing, China
• Founded: 2019
• Products: QCraft QPilot 2.0, QCraft Cruise, QCraft Matrix, Robovan, Robotaxi, Robobus