In recent years, the new retail and logistics industries have developed rapidly, and "unmanned technologies" such as unmanned vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned warehouses, unmanned stations, and unmanned distribution have become new favorites. A few days ago, Meituan-Dianping held an unmanned delivery open platform press conference and launched three independently developed laboratory products, including unmanned delivery concept vehicles, unmanned vehicle "pouches" and drones that have been put into trial operation. The new concept vehicles adopt L4 level. Autonomous driving technology, using multi-sensor fusion solutions such as lidar, ultrasound, and cameras, has the capacity for low-speed automatic driving on urban roads.
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Unmanned delivery is a technical system that is gradually improved by the comprehensive application of intelligent robots and autonomous driving technology in the e-commerce, food delivery, and logistics industries. It is the key direction for the development of standardized and intelligent delivery in the e-commerce, food delivery, and logistics industries for a long time in the future. At present, major e-commerce companies are competing to occupy positions in the field of unmanned distribution, from the appearance of unmanned distribution robots on university campuses, to the completion of aerial high-load delivery package tests by unmanned helicopters, and the issuance of the first domestic drone aviation operation (pilot) permit. The first normalized route for UAV logistics and distribution in China was approved, etc., and innovations were frequent and spectacular. This time Meituan launched an open platform for unmanned delivery, with rich landing scenarios, strong technical background and comprehensive operational support. It is the first time that unmanned delivery technology has been applied to the food delivery industry, and it is open to partners and the society at a higher starting point. Quite eye-catching.
At present, the key to developing unmanned distribution is to solve two problems, one is technical problems. Professionally speaking, the current general-purpose autonomous driving technology is still immature. Fortunately, the unmanned delivery robots used by takeaway companies and some express companies are "small and slow things". There is no problem with automatic driving in a low-speed and simple environment, but if it is expanded For a relatively diverse and complex range of applications, more issues such as stability and safety must be considered, and more mature autonomous driving technologies need to be developed. The other is the issue of mechanism guarantees. E-commerce and food delivery platforms develop unmanned delivery. Some mainly use unmanned vehicles or food delivery robots, and some focus on drones. The transportation, public security traffic management, civil aviation and other departments need to strengthen management and provide public services in accordance with the law, otherwise the unmanned delivery technology will continue Developed, it will be difficult to make progress in the actual application environment.
The first application of unmanned delivery technology to the food delivery industry is a rare opportunity for the development of unmanned delivery technology and optimizing the external environment of unmanned delivery, and it also means severe challenges. On the one hand, the e-commerce and logistics industries have accumulated rich experience using technologies such as unmanned vehicles, unmanned warehouses, and unmanned stations for unmanned distribution, which has created the basic conditions for the development of more mature unmanned distribution technologies in the next step. On the other hand, unmanned delivery now urgently needs to solve the problems of technology application, mechanism guarantee, etc., most of which have existed for many years and fully "exposed", indicating that there are indeed relatively big difficulties in solving them, and new ideas and methods need to be used to solve them.
E-commerce, food delivery, and logistics companies have conducted a lot of exploration on the development of unmanned distribution. Generally speaking, it is beneficial to promote the development and competition of new technologies, products and service models of unmanned distribution. However, barriers may also be formed between different industries and enterprises, leading to different Unmanned delivery technologies, products, and service models are incompatible and interoperable among different industries and enterprises, resulting in a large amount of redundant construction and waste of resources. In view of this, the unmanned delivery technology was first applied to the food delivery industry, and the unmanned delivery open platform was launched. In the long run, this also provides an open platform for promoting the compatibility and interoperability of unmanned delivery technology, products and service models. On this platform, different industries and enterprises should strengthen competition and cooperation with an open mind, further improve unmanned delivery technology, products and service models, and formulate a unified industry standard through legal procedures, and then develop into a national standard for unmanned delivery, so as to greatly improve unmanned delivery. The quality of distribution technology, products and services has made it a bright spot for deepening supply-side reforms and facilitating the conversion of new and old kinetic energy.
Food delivery, express delivery, logistics and distribution are traditional labor-intensive industries. The delivery guys and express delivery guys have developed into a huge employment group. Many of us have received takeout and express delivery from the delivery guys and express delivery guys. People are very familiar with life scenes. The world is changing fast, and it may not be long. Taking take-out and express delivery from naive robots will become the "life style" that people are accustomed to. When "no one" delivers for you, life is more imaginable.