China's Ninebot unveils scooters that drive themselves to charging stations

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.

Ninebot said Uber <UBER.N> and Lyft <LYFT.O>, the ride-hailing giants that are expanding into scooter-sharing, would be among the customers for the new semi-autonomous vehicles that are expected to hit roads early next year.

(Reporting by Yingzhi Yang in BEIJING and Brenda Goh in HONG KONG; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Himani Sarkar)