Zelos Z8

A larger roughly 8-cubic-metre Zelos robovan aimed at dock transfers, forklift loading and industrial sites. Payload and range were not published.

Price: $10,977Cheaper than 25%
Autonomy: Level 4No driver needed in its area
Driverless: In serviceDriverless in service
Fleet: ~20,000Reported; details below
Speed: —Not published
Range: —Not published

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Why it matters

Zelos Z8 is on the market today.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown: 2024-06-28
Released: 2024-06

Zelos product launch, four models

Maker

ZelosCompany

How it drives

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

Driverless status: Driverless in service
Where it runs: China (specific cities not stated)
Fleet: No model-specific count. Zelos-wide (all models): about 20,000 vehicles in early 2026 including the merged Cainiao fleet, operating in 300+ cities (KrASIA/36Kr, Feb 2026)
SAE level: Level 4: drives itself with no one at the controls inside its approved area

How it stacks up

Against other delivery pods that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Zelos Z8 costs less than 25% of the 4 other delivery pods that publish a price. Bars show the 4 closest in date.

Price $10,977 $3,036$12,352 #4 of 5 · cheaper than 25%

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.

Public attention

How much public attention Zelos Z8 gets, from open data.

No Wikipedia article of its own yet
No recent press stories listed yet

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: Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.

Lineage

Every Zelos (Jiushi Zhixing) vehicle in order.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price: $10,977RMB 79,800 (TMTPost, Jul 2024); USD at about RMB 7.27/USD, June 2024
How to get one: No official buying page found

Sources

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

TMTPost (钛媒体) Zelos launches four unmanned vehicles, Z5 cut to RMB 49,800 QbitAI (量子位) Zelos unveils Z2, Z5 2024, Z8 and Z10 unmanned delivery vehicles

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