ALS RoboVan Level 4 driverless vehicle starts public road trial in Cyberjaya
- ID
- 37817
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 21 Oct 2026, 3:49 PM
- Fetched
- 21 Oct 2026, 4:21 PM
- Provider
- SoyaCincau
- Category
- malaysia-tech
- Original URL
- https://soyacincau.com/2026/10/21/als-robovan-driverless-vehicle-public-road-trial-cyberjaya/
- Source URL
- https://soyacincau.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 6.5
- Created
- 21 Oct 2026, 4:22 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersstartup_foundersai_ml_learners
What happened
Autonomous Logistic Solutions Sdn Bhd (ALS) has begun a 6-month public road trial of its Level 4 driverless RoboVan on the 22km Malaysia Autonomous Vehicle (MyAV) test route in Cyberjaya, covering Persiaran APEC, Persiaran Cyberpoint Selatan, Persiaran Rimba Permai and the Futurise area. The company says this is the first time a Malaysian company has been authorised to run a fully driverless L4 vehicle on public roads with a valid plate — the production unit will carry a standard green JPJePlate, not the blue launch plate. Before this, the van ran a 6-month closed trial at the Pos Malaysia National Mail Centre in Shah Alam, logging over 1,000km of point-to-point pallet transfers across at least two daily shifts; the vehicle is cargo-only, built on Zelostech's Zelos Z10 EV with 10m³ of space, LiDAR and multiple cameras, and is overseen from an ALS Remote Operations Centre in Cyberjaya.
Why it matters
The concrete thing to watch is not the van but the operating model: a 22km mixed-traffic route with MRT stations, pedestrian crossings and multi-lane intersections, supervised from a single Remote Operations Centre. If you are scoping any autonomy, delivery-robot or remote-supervision pilot in Malaysia, this trial plus the MyAV route is now the reference path — and the 6-month window means any commercial claims from ALS or partners should be treated as pending until mixed-traffic and remote-supervision results are published. For logistics founders, an authorised driverless cargo operator in Cyberjaya is a potential integration partner rather than a competitor yet; the 1,000km Shah Alam baseline is the only performance number disclosed so far.
Discussion angle
Remote supervision is the unglamorous part: what does one operator overseeing a 22km route actually look like in staffing ratios, latency budgets and failover, and would that model transfer to delivery robots or drones in Malaysian traffic?