Era of driverless delivery on the way to reality
On the campus of Harbin Engineering University in Heilongjiang province a courier wound its way steadily among teachers and students. “Our unmanned delivery vehicles can take 2,000 to 3,000 orders on average a day.” Li said an unmanned delivery vehicle can help with 80 orders for each outing and can make 100 delivery calls in five seconds, the delivery efficiency of which is 10 times higher than that of human delivery. In Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, automated deliveries are no longer limited to vehicles as drones of SF Express transport boxes of bayberries from a mountaintop to a delivery station far below. “Over 30 companies are deploying autonomous delivery solutions in China,” said Bill Russo, founder of the consultancy Automobility in Shanghai. “A more dynamic system built upon autonomous and robotics technologies will allow economies and businesses to adapt to the rapidly transforming world and the new challenges it brings, such as more flexible and less centralised manufacturing.” For some time now, Chinese technology companies have been stepping up unmanned delivery services, which are expected to generate huge commercial value in businesses that deliver express parcels, takeout food, fresh produce and retail pharmaceuticals.
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