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A few days ago, Zhichedi learned from Jidu officials that Baidu's smart car brand Jidu announced that it has completed nearly 400 million US dollars of A round of financing, and this round of financing is jointly increased by Baidu and strategic partner Geely.
Jidu completed a Series A financing of $400 million
After the financing is completed, Jidu will continue to accelerate the process of R&D and mass production, the first automotive robot concept car will be released at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year, and the mass production model will be listed and delivered in 2023.
On January 19, the Jidu brand just announced that the visual and functional design of its first automotive robot concept car has been completed.
Jidu's first automotive robot concept car was designed
From the styling point of view, the overall appearance design of this product is relatively soft, and from the perspective of the door opening, it seems to use the design of the scissor door.
Frameless windows and opening and closing angles resemble scissor doors
In addition, the rear of the vehicle seems to have a through-type taillight design and a purple light band, which seems to be visible from the footage of the rear to the front of the car, which will be a sneaky design model.
Vehicle rear design
On January 18, Jidu released the brand logo, as well as the brand color, car robot to create an exclusive set of fonts - ROBO Font.
From the logo itself, Jidu combined the concept of "pixel" with the letter "J" to create the industry's first automotive robot brand logo "Pixel-J".
Jidu brand logo named "Pixel-J"
Jidu believes that "the operation of machines and the evolution of the digital world are inseparable from AI, which is the innate attribute of Jidu automobile robots." So, what is the color of AI? Jidu has left this problem to the AI itself. After comprehensively analyzing countless physical experimental data, AI gave us the answer.
Set degree AI purple
In addition, Jidu started from the concept of "pixels" and created an exclusive set of fonts for automotive robots - ROBO Font. Jidu believes that car robots use pixels to understand the world, and they are also using pixels to express themselves to the world.
ROBO Font
Regarding the further actions of the Jidu brand, Chedi will continue to pay attention to it.