As of October 19, 2026, you can ride a fully driverless Apollo Go robotaxi in two kinds of places: Chinese cities where Baidu runs the service through its own app, and Dubai, where rides can also be booked in the Uber app. London, Hong Kong and Switzerland are testing, Kazakhstan is a signed agreement, and Apollo Go has no service in the United States.
The most recent official status is Baidu’s second-quarter 2026 results release, filed with the SEC on August 18. Here is what it says place by place, what the “28 cities” figure counts, and what booking a ride involves.
Where Apollo Go runs, by status
- Driverless paid service, China: Apollo Go’s home market, where it operates under the name 萝卜快跑 (Luobo Kuaipao) in its own app. Baidu’s quarterly release doesn’t list the Chinese cities by name.
- Driverless paid service, Dubai: Baidu says it launched fully driverless commercial operations there during the second quarter, bookable in the Apollo Go app and in the Uber app.
- Testing, London: open-road testing with Uber and Lyft. No public rides yet.
- Testing, Hong Kong: Baidu received the city’s first fully driverless testing permits and began testing on Airport Island.
- Testing, Switzerland: open-road testing with the bus operator PostBus.
- Agreement only, Kazakhstan: a memorandum of understanding with Turlov Private Holding to explore ride-hailing.
The Hong Kong trial is invitation-only
Hong Kong residents will get their first chance to ride in a 14-day trial in Tung Chung from October 21 to November 3, 2026. The South China Morning Post reports that Baidu expects more than 1,000 local residents to take part, the rides are free, and each car carries a backup operator. It’s a feedback-gathering trial, not a service you can book from the street, and visitors shouldn’t plan around it.
What the “28 cities” number counts
Baidu says Apollo Go’s global footprint has reached 28 cities, and that its fleets have logged more than 350 million autonomous kilometers, over 240 million of them with no one in the driver’s seat. The footprint mixes paid service and testing, and Baidu doesn’t split the 28 into those two groups. So it isn’t the number of cities where you can open an app and get a ride today.
Ride volume dipped in the second quarter
On the August 18 earnings call, management said Apollo Go completed about 1 million fully driverless rides in the quarter and that cumulative public rides passed 23 million by the end of June, according to a call transcript. Management also said the quarter’s volume was temporarily hit by regulatory-related operational adjustments in some Chinese cities and that it expects volume to pick up again as those operations resume. Baidu didn’t name the cities. Reports about specific suspensions after that date mostly come from news aggregators rather than Baidu or city governments, so they’re left out here until an official source confirms them.
Booking a ride in Dubai
- Open the Uber app or the Apollo Go app while you’re inside the Dubai service area.
- Request a ride. In Uber, an Apollo Go robotaxi is one possible match. Baidu’s release doesn’t say how Uber decides when to assign one, so a request doesn’t guarantee a driverless car.
- Check the fare the app shows before you confirm. Baidu hasn’t published a Dubai fare table, so the in-app price is the one that counts.
If you’re in the US
Apollo Go isn’t available. The driverless services you can actually use in US cities are covered in our guides to Waymo fares and cities, riding a Zoox robotaxi and Tesla Robotaxi. For services that are announced but not yet open, see Nuro’s Uber–Lucid robotaxi.