The nation is still on tenterhooks as the epidemic unfolds. There are two urgent issues that need to be resolved, one is to ensure the basic life of the people, and the other is to ensure that the medical staff struggling on the front line have enough supplies and help.
The new coronavirus is highly contagious and can spread through oral fluids/contact/aerosols, and it can also detach from the body and survive independently in the environment for one to four days. So isolation from the patient is not enough, it is best to stay out of the house. In this case of isolation of all people at home as much as possible, how to solve the logistics of the last mile of delivery? How to solve the transportation operation in high-risk scenarios? How to ensure the normal functioning of society in relative safety?
This is when the previously low-profile 'unmanned vehicles' were pushed to the front line. They have a variety of roles and different functions. Some are responsible for delivering food/courier/drugs, some are outdoors or in hospitals uninterruptedly disinfecting road surfaces, and others can always measure the body temperature of people around them and monitor suspected infected people ......? Behind them, stand Baidu / Jingdong / Suning and other giant companies, but also the vertical field of startups, as well as with the corresponding technology temporary present save products of technology companies.
In short, these little guys that we usually find less efficient than people are not high, this time carrying the banner of "defense of life". Today, we will take stock of these 'unmanned vehicles' that are active on the front line.
1. Meituan unmanned vehicle: magic bag (mainly responsible for outdoor dish delivery)
Affected by the epidemic, "online purchasing" has become the way to buy groceries for many families in first and second-tier cities. According to "Meituan Grocery", daily sales in Beijing are up to two or three times higher than before the Spring Festival, and there is still a shortage of sorters/packers/riders, so unmanned vehicle grocery deliveries have come into being, with the first batch of landing sites including Beijing's Shunyi and Haidian districts.
It is understood that the "Magic Bag" travels at about ?20km/h on the open road, can deliver ?100?kilograms at a time, has a range of ?100?kilometers, is based on a regional ?5G?network and autopilot technology, it can recognize traffic lights and yield to pedestrians, and it will be sterilized several times a day.
Qin Xiaoguang, regional head of Meituan's grocery-buying and delivery business, said orders with a delivery distance of more than ?10?kilometers and a weight of more than ?20?kilograms are now handed over to unmanned vehicles, and neighborhoods with outbreaks of disease are also delivered by unmanned vehicles.
Seeing such a big wheel unmanned car, it is estimated that attentive friends can recall that the prototype of this small car is the previous Chehejia research and development and production of the ?SEV. this is the comment of some netizens on microblogging.
2.? Jingdong unmanned courier car (mainly responsible for outdoor material distribution)
Wuhan major hospitals are now high-risk scenarios, a lot of operations are best done by machines.2?month?6? day, Jingdong sent two unmanned cars to Wuhan, mainly used in Wuhan Ninth Hospital's courier delivery service. (Wuhan Ninth Hospital is a new coronavirus infection pneumonia designated hospital, the hospital only accepts patients with serious and critical illnesses, do not allow patients and doctors other than personnel to enter)
Currently, Wuhan Ninth Hospital orders every day there are ?10? to ?20? single, each single ?30? pieces or so, the content of the order is mainly medical supplies and rescue supplies, the current unmanned courier car can undertake the hospital? 50% to?70% of the order delivery volume.
In addition to the two Wuhan, Jingdong in Guiyang, Hohhot and other places of intelligent distribution station is also in normal operation, at the same time Jingdong unmanned delivery trial operation of the city has more than ?20?cities.
3.? Suning unmanned vehicle: Wolong (mainly responsible for outdoor material distribution)
Under this outbreak, Suning Convenience Stores formally deployed its own unmanned vehicle distribution business. Some of the Suning stores in Suzhou, Nanjing and Beijing are current trial sites, and the delivery routes are basically non-public roads within ?3?kilometers around the community.
In addition to unmanned vehicles, Suning Logistics' exploration in the field of intelligent logistics also includes intelligent unmanned warehousing, including super cloud warehouses, unmanned warehouses and AGV?robot warehouses. At present, Suning's unmanned warehouse has been deployed in the Suning Yuhua Logistics Center focus, which can realize the whole process of contactless production, and minimize personnel contact under the condition of ensuring efficiency.
4. Baidu unmanned vehicles (including Xinshiqi unmanned disinfection vehicle / Xinshiqi unmanned distribution logistics vehicle)
As one of the three giants of domestic technology, ? In the face of this outbreak, Baidu has come up with the self-driving technology that it has been tackling for the past few years, and at the same time joined hands with eco-partner Xinshiqi to deliver an unmanned disinfection vehicle, and two unmanned distribution and logistics vehicles to Shanghai and Wuhan respectively.
The disinfection vehicle can be loaded with ?160?liters of disinfectant, and it operates three times a day at a speed of ?5?km/hour, with a coverage of 3-5?meters, to disinfect the artificial intelligence island in Zhangjiang. At the same time, it also has a monitoring function, if it finds that there are people gathering, or not wearing masks, it will automatically alarm. In addition, on February ?4?, New Stone delivered two unmanned delivery logistics vehicles to Wuhan, mainly responsible for the delivery of daily necessities for residents.
5.? Shanghai Titanium Meter Robotics (mainly responsible for indoor disinfection)
Wuhan hospitals are actually quite high in demand for daily disinfection, and since the outbreak, as of as of ?February?12?, Shanghai Titanium Meter Robotics has invested nearly ?60? more than unmanned disinfection vehicles to hospitals across the country. At present, Wuhan Union Hospital, emergency department and hematology?ICU?two departments have adopted this product.
It is understood that these unmanned disinfection car can be along the path of movement of health care workers, patients, using progressive disinfection mode, to carry out the cycle of 24?hour fixed-point disinfection. At the same time, the unmanned disinfection vehicle working in the hematology department?ICU?can be used by using multi-point disinfection mode, to carry out?24?hours of multi-point timed spot disinfection.
6. Gaoxian Robotics: Ecobot?Scrubber?75/50 (mainly responsible for indoor disinfection)
Similar to the robot supplied by Titanium Meter to Wuhan, Gaoxian Robotics delivered two indoor disinfection unmanned carts to Peking Union Medical College Hospital. The two vehicles are of different models, with the Ecobot?Scrubber?75? in charge of floor cleaning in the outpatient building and the Ecobot?Scrubber?50? in charge of dust-pushing the floor. In addition, the Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine also deployed the relevant vehicles.
7.? Gao Xinxing (mainly responsible for patrolling and temperature measurement)
This unmanned vehicle that can patrol and measure temperature in public **** places is prototyped as Gao Xinxing's ?5G?patrol robot. Through upgraded development, it has added the functions of body temperature detection and face mask recognition.
It can quickly measure temperature for pedestrians within infrared?5?meters and can measure?10?people at the same time. It is equipped with ?5?HD cameras, which can achieve panoramic dead-angle patrol, while supporting remote visualization command, with a range of more than ?10?hours.
At present, the high emerging temperature measurement patrol robot has sped to Shanghai, Xi'an, Handan, Hangzhou, Guiyang, Guangzhou, Nanning, Ningbo and other cities, and mainly focuses on the high-speed rail, airports, public security, hospitals, shopping malls, communities and other application scenarios.
8. Purdue Technology (mainly responsible for indoor drug delivery and food delivery)
Purdue Technology is an intelligent delivery robot provider, the first day of this year has been committed to the epidemic, free of charge for the epidemic area to provide unmanned delivery vehicles (actually more like robots).
It can take instructions from patients, and healthcare workers can automatically travel to the door of the ward by placing medicines/daily necessities on the shelves. According to reports, one delivery robot is equivalent to the workload of two healthcare workers, can provide all-day, no-touch delivery service to ?20?wards on the same floor, and can ensure ?24?hour on duty.
By now, Purdue has deployed in cities in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Beijing and other provinces, in addition to two cities in Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
9.? XingShen Intelligence: HANMA (mainly responsible for outdoor express delivery)
HANMA is an unmanned vehicle tailored by XingShen Intelligence specifically for China Post, which is mainly responsible for delivery tasks in the area of Xiantao Municipal Government in Hubei Province and its direct units since the second day of the first month of this year. It delivers twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, and can deliver ?20?to ?30?pieces of mail each time.
It is reported that the body size is about ?2?m/0.8?m/1.5?m, the maximum speed is ?15?km/h, with ?30?parcel compartments. Longitudinally adjacent parcel compartments can also be disassembled to expand capacity. Currently, it operates in Xiantao, but also in Zhejiang Deqing Geographic Information Town and Xiong'an New Area in Hebei.
10. Saitech Intelligence (mainly responsible for indoor drug delivery and food delivery, and recycling of medical waste)
Saitech Intelligence delivered two delivery unmanned vehicles (which are actually more like robots) to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, which the hospital named "Pingping" and "Anan". In the hospital, the two of them are responsible for part of the delivery of medicine, meal delivery, recycling of bedclothes and medical waste.
11.? One Clear Innovation: Quartet (mainly responsible for outdoor material delivery)
One Clear Innovation was founded by Prof. Ming Liu, Director of the Center for Intelligent Driving at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), whose team has been involved in the research and development of several unmanned vehicles around the world in the past decade or so.
Yiqing Innovation provides a total solution for ?L3, L4? unmanned systems from complete vehicles, hardware and software and algorithms, and has already entered into cooperation with Foxconn, Huawei, and Shunfeng, and has just completed a ?Pre-A? round of financing last month invested by Lenovo Ventures and other organizations.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, a clear innovation contacted a number of places across the country, Shandong Zibo city government responded to the earliest, so ?2?early, "Quart-I" and "Quart-I-plus" began to work in Zibo, Shandong: after the ?750kg? of fresh vegetables, from the electronic logistics port of Leshou, driving to a square in the village of Zhang Ran village in the town of Fujia, in the car of radish, cabbage, celery, After the car radish, cabbage, celery, potatoes are all unloaded, and then automatically return to the Le goods electronic logistics port, a round-trip time of 20 minutes.
The two cars are both 1000kg, range is 100km, the whole transportation route is within ?5km? and the driving speed is between ?10km/h? and ?15km/h?. All in all, the two unmanned vehicles of Yicheng undertook the vegetable distribution work of the ?19?villages in Zibo City, so that people's daily life is guaranteed.
It is understood that in addition to helping transport vegetables in Zibo, Shandong Province, they are also about to enter the Shenzhen "Xiaotangshan" hospital to help transport medical supplies. The specific number of vehicles put in will depend on the needs of the hospital.
12. Harness Technology: Ostrich (mainly responsible for outdoor supplies/express delivery)
At present, Harness Technology has quickly completed the creation of two unmanned delivery vehicle prototypes based on its self-developed ?U-Drive? intelligent driving system.
They will target hospitals, communities, factory workshops, colleges and universities, industrial parks, office buildings and other closed scenarios, realizing the non-contact distribution of medical supplies in key epidemic prevention areas, and the arrival of courier takeaways to the fixed-point distribution between residential buildings.
Additionally, they can also carry out unmanned operations such as safety inspections in quarantine areas or closed communities.
Summary
Everyone has contributed to this epidemic, regardless of company size. Some may not have contributed unmanned vehicles, but delivered products such as robots/drones/information query platforms to the outbreak area. The popularization of technology is a process of gradual penetration, through the application of these unmanned vehicles, I have a few thoughts.
1. Due to the needs of this epidemic, the unmanned vehicle industry has really moved forward.
We can see that under the epidemic, the user's acceptance of unmanned vehicles is higher, and their operation is more powerful, and the stock industry of the related industry also has a wave of growth. However, it is still only a pilot application, fewer cars and people, relatively simple road conditions, later if you want to large-scale practical application, there are many difficulties. For example, there is no natural transportation needs of the company such as Jingdong / Suning how to find more demand scenarios? How to integrate unmanned vehicles with the natural transportation environment? How long do users have to use it to be lower than the cost of using human labor? ......
2.? We need to embrace new technology, not fear it.
The topic of 'robots replacing humans' is being talked about again because of these unmanned vehicles, but this fear is largely unnecessary in the short term. Under the real-world application of Meituan, riders and unmanned vehicles work with each other and are more efficient. Because the unmanned vehicle can deliver super-weight and super-long distance orders, the riders will be able to send more short-distance orders, the original riders send ?60?single a day, now they can send ?70?single, and their income has increased instead. So, for a long time, these new technologies are our left arm, not replace us.
3.? Everyone needs to master basic survival skills.
Our generation, may be really peaceful days are used to, but look at history, big decades without war countries and times really rare. Normally, we can utilize technology and market economy to facilitate our lives. But under the disaster, their own survival skills is the hardest currency, at least cooking, driving or to know.
Until now, the outbreak has lasted more than a month, with new cases gradually declining and things seem to be easing. Thanks to these health care workers and unmanned vehicle companies who are struggling on the front line, 2020?is a difficult year, and we hope to lend everyone a hand to make it slowly get better.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.