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Sinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system
Photo: Inceptio Technology with Sinotruk Jinan Truck (official image), from en.inceptio.ai. Image policy
CommercialChinaSupervisedSAE level 3

Inceptio Technology with Sinotruk Jinan Truck · self-driving truck

Sinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system

The second launch platform for Inceptio's Xuanyuan system, a Sinotruk heavy tractor co-developed since 2019 for SAE Level 3 highway driving. A driver stays aboard; Inceptio holds L4 test permits for heavy trucks in several regions.

Price
—sold to fleets; price not published
Autonomy
Level 3Driver must supervise
Driverless
Not yetSafety driver on board
Fleet
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Range
—Not published

Why it matters

Sinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system is on the market today.

Real-world use

Built in series from the end of 2021 for Chinese logistics fleets; per-model fleet counts were not published.

Timeline

First shown
2021-03-10
Released
2021-12
Xuanyuan system launch, Shanghai

How it drives

Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.

Driverless status
Safety driver on board
Where it runs
Chinese highway line-haul routes
Rides, miles or loads
more than 500 million km across all Inceptio trucks (Shanghai government, Mar 2026)
SAE level
Level 3: drives itself, a driver must take over when asked

Public attention

How much public attention Sinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system gets, from open data.

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Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.

Lineage

Every Inceptio Technology with Sinotruk Jinan Truck vehicle in order.

  1. Dongfeng heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan systemDongfeng heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system2021Commercial
  2. Sinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan systemSinotruk heavy truck with Inceptio Xuanyuan system2021Commercial

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not publishedsold to fleets; price not published
How to get one
No official buying page found

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose

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Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Caixin Global Autonomous truck startup Inceptio powers up new autopilot system RoboSense RoboSense LiDAR in Inceptio Xuanyuan L3 trucks Shanghai Municipal Government Changning tech firm broadens global footprint

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