OpenDriveLab

A University of Hong Kong lab led by Hongyang Li, working on end-to-end autonomous driving and embodied AI.

OpenDriveLab was founded in 2021 and is now based at the University of Hong Kong under Hongyang Li, with teams in both Hong Kong and Shanghai. It first became known for autonomous driving: UniAD folds perception, prediction, and planning into a single end-to-end network — going straight from sensor input to a driving plan — and won the CVPR 2023 Best Paper award. The lab later moved into embodied AI, partnering with AgiBot to release the large-scale real-robot manipulation dataset AgiBot World (a Best Paper finalist at IROS 2025), and it also works on humanoid robot control and long-horizon manipulation. In February 2026 it announced partnerships with Unitree, Noitom, and BrainCo. For newcomers, it stands as one of the representative academic teams that moved from autonomous driving into embodied AI.

ExampleUniAD (CVPR 2023 Best Paper) and the AgiBot World dataset both came out of this lab.

Also called

OpenDriveLab (HKU)

Related

UniAD · AgiBot World · AgiBot · End-to-End · Autonomous-Driving Talent Moving into Embodied AI

Sources

OpenDriveLab 官网 (Chinese)

As of

2026-07