The subway just got a train that sees the tracks like a driver would. crrc unveiled its vellink…
the subway just got a train that sees the tracks like a driver would. crrc unveiled its vellink driverless digital metro at berlin's innotrans on september 22, the first to put embodied ai on the whole car body with sensors reading track conditions and warning of faults, while siemens and stadler signed the world's largest automated train order, a 3 billion euro goa4 fleet for copenhagen.
the driverless train is now a design choice, not a demo.
Context
Verified source: CRRC (Sep 22, 2026) unveiled three new full-size vehicles at the 15th InnoTrans in Berlin. Railway-News describes the VELLINK driverless metro platform, and CRRC says integrated multi-source sensors form a sensing network that monitors tracks and identifies potential failures in real time.
Verified source: Siemens (Feb 6, 2026) says the Siemens and Stadler consortium will deliver fully automated GoA4 trains for S-Bane Copenhagen in an order of around three billion euros, 226 four-car trainsets with an option for 100 more.
The Sep 22 InnoTrans unveiling, the track-monitoring sensors and the roughly three billion euro Copenhagen order match the sources. The Copenhagen order was announced Feb 6, 2026, and not at InnoTrans, and 'the first to put embodied AI on the whole car body' is CRRC's own claim. 'A design choice, not a demo' is the author's opinion. Anything else in the post was not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted.
Related work
- Made in Changchun: China's First Embodied Intelligence Digital Metro Train VELLINK, Changchun government ↗Describes radar, cameras and a multimodal perception model.
Watch next
- Read the Changchun release for what VELLINK's perception model does on the line.
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