Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus · self-driving bus or shuttle
Astar autonomous minibus
A 6.2 m electric minibus with 14 seats (up to 19 riders) and a 150 km range, Golden Dragon's second-generation driverless bus after work that began in 2008. It was aimed at campuses, research parks and other closed areas.
- Price
- —no price published
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- TestingDriverless tests only
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- 150 kmPer charge or tank
Why it matters
Reported as the first fully automatic driverless bus tested in Israel (March 2019).
Real-world use
Passed a closed-road test in Tel Aviv in March 2019; autonomous A-Star trials followed in Suzhou and Xiamen around 2020-2021.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Xiamen Golden Dragon BusCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Driverless tests only
- Where it runs
- Tel Aviv test site (Mar 2019); Suzhou and Xiamen trials (DCA Design, 2021)
Public attention
How much public attention Astar autonomous minibus 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 2026-10-14; 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 Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus vehicle in order.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedno price 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
| Measure | Astar autonomous minibusXiamen Golden Dragon Bus |  WinBusAutomotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC)Same job: shuttle · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Robobus (Yutong Xiaoyu 2.0)WeRide with YutongSame job: shuttle · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Apolong IIBaidu ApolloSame job: shuttle · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
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| First shown | 2019-03 | 2020-07-15 | 2021-01 | 2021-08-05 |
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Sources
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