On February 6, 2020, on Jilin Street in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, a special distribution vehicle from the Jingdong Logistics Renhe Station, along the street all the way forward, deftly dodging other vehicles and pedestrians, and successfully sent the materials into the core area of the epidemic in Wuhan, Wuhan, the Ninth Hospital. The delivery task is undertaken by the intelligent delivery robot independently developed by Jingdong Logistics.
Jingdong Logistics Wuhan Renhe Station is only 600 meters away from the core of the epidemic area of Wuhan Ninth Hospital, after the outbreak of the epidemic, this site almost supported the distribution of medical supplies of the Ninth Hospital. In order to ensure the supply of medical supplies and living materials for front-line medical staff, the distribution work of this site has not been suspended for a moment.
Before the epidemic, Jingdong Logistics has been seeking new means of "technological support". Soon after the outbreak of the epidemic, immediately began in the core area of the epidemic to try to prepare for intelligent distribution, in order to realize the normalization of the distribution, the company from all over the distribution of robots to support Wuhan. Jingdong Logistics X Division engineers went to Wuhan at the first time, for intelligent distribution robot map survey.
Not only is the self-developed distribution robot assisted, Jingdong Logistics can also open up the L4 automatic driving technology and kit to the outside world, providing technical support and upgrading for other robot manufacturers, so that more distribution robots from other manufacturers can also quickly realize the L4 level of autopilot in the unmanned following mode.
With the continuous assembly of robots, these "robot retrograde" can do more. Jingdong Logistics said that if some special hospitals or isolated neighborhoods have the need, the enterprise will also consider through the distribution of robots to provide services, so that this odd force to become an important reinforcement force.
In addition to Jingdong, takeaway delivery platform Meituan Dianping is also making active attempts at unmanned delivery, and not long ago at the CES consumer electronics show in the U.S., Meituan Dianping's development of an electric, unmanned delivery prototype, the eDeliver4U, in cooperation with Valeo, attracted a lot of eyeballs.
The eDeliver4U is 2.80 meters long, 1.20 meters wide, and 1.70 meters high, and can deliver up to 17 takeout meals on a single trip, with a designed operating speed of 25km/h, a maximum speed of 50km/h, and a range of about 100km. It is powered by a 48V electrical system, and it searches for suitable routes on its own through Valeo's modular sensing system, and it is applicable to areas with zero-emission requirements. The technologies used in this vehicle are in line with automotive industry standards and have already been mass-produced.
The eDeliver4U uses four Valeo SCALA LIDARs (the only LIDAR that has been successfully used in a production car), a front-facing camera, two fisheye lenses, two radar devices, and six ultrasonic sensors, supplemented by the relevant software and artificial intelligence technologies.
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