Recently, Dada Express and autonomous driving company jointly announced a formal cooperation with the implementation of technology. The two parties will leverage the advantages of smaller and more flexible sidewalk logistics robots to jointly create an unmanned delivery service experience from supermarket warehouses to the doorsteps of residential residents in the community.
According to the cooperation plan between the two parties, the "unicorn" sidewalk logistics robot will be connected to the Dada unmanned delivery open platform. The two parties will work together to provide instant delivery services for all logistics chain robots in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Users can directly receive all kinds of goods delivered from supermarkets without leaving their homes at home.
(Figure 1: "Unicorn" sidewalk robot provides user experience directly to the home)
promotes technology "Unicorn" sidewalk logistics robot has many advantages such as good end road conditions, relatively controllable costs, and meeting non-motor vehicle road driving requirements. The two parties reached a cooperation. The Dada unmanned delivery open platform will provide a large number of instant delivery orders and standardized operation and management tools for accessed sidewalk logistics robots, and jointly implement technology to jointly provide merchants with "-hour " service, further promoting the normalized and large-scale application practice of unmanned delivery in the instant delivery scenario.
Promotion Technology was established in 2021 and is a startup that focuses on developing autonomous driving systems suitable for end-of-unstructured road conditions. Its founding team has successfully developed the second type of "all-unmanned" self-driving passenger car in history, second only to Google Waymo was approved to drive on public roads without safety officers in California, USA.
"Tire Cars" allow unmanned delivery services to your doorstep
As instant retail moves towards a full-category era where everything can be delivered, it is becoming increasingly important to do a good job in real-time fulfillment of contracts. Unmanned delivery has the characteristics of higher load capacity, stronger stability and higher safety in large-scale applications. In recent years, it has become a hot spot in the field of instant contract fulfillment.
(Figure 2: China's terminal delivery scenario involves a large number of unstructured road conditions)
. At present, domestic instant delivery scenarios involves a large number of unstructured road scenarios such as sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and community buildings. They are complex and diverse and have low standardization. They raise higher challenges to the algorithms of unmanned delivery equipment, road conditions adaptability and stability. How to make unmanned delivery services directly reach your doorsteps has become a pain point in the industry.
In order to solve these pain points, unmanned delivery can adapt to more complex scenarios and truly deliver it to your doorstep, it has implemented technology to develop a data-driven autonomous driving framework and algorithm that can adapt to a wider scenario from scratch, and independently built a dedicated simulation simulator. At the same time, it has taken the lead in drawing city-level non-motor vehicle lanes with partners in China, completing the original accumulation of key prior data, and greatly improving the system iteration efficiency, promoting the rapid implementation and application of light robots in the field of terminal instant delivery.
, Dada Express unmanned delivery open platform, as the builder of the unmanned delivery ecosystem, relies on the advantages of Dada Express massive instant delivery orders, rich self-developed digital operation management tools, standardized open platforms and end-of-person labor delivery capabilities, which can effectively realize the digital operation of unmanned vehicles, reduce upstream and downstream development costs, and make it possible to efficiently apply unmanned vehicle delivery in real-time delivery scenarios, helping merchants reduce costs and increase efficiency. As of now, Dada’s unmanned delivery open platform has supported the delivery of more than 50,000 supermarket orders.
(Figure 3: Sidewalk robots have good end road conditions)
Thanks to the unique end unstructured road traffic capability of sidewalk robots, relying on the advantages of both the implementation of technology and Dada Express, the "unicorn" logistics robots that promote technology can be highly close to the behavior of human riders. At the starting point, there is almost no need to change the operation steps of warehouse staff in key links such as picking and loading. In the order reception process, it can achieve "seamless connection" with human riders, and can also directly reach the community and building at the destination end, and elevator connections can be carried out when conditions allow, truly achieving a user experience close to human riders' "door delivery".
leverages the advantages of reaching capabilities and cost, and works together to promote the normalization and scale application of unmanned delivery
2022 Instant Retail Performance Delivery Service White Paper jointly produced by Dada Group Research Institute and Rogo Research Institute point out that in 2021, China's instant fulfillment delivery order volume exceeded 30 billion orders, with a user scale of over 600 million. It is expected that the order volume in 2022 will exceed 40 billion orders and a user scale of over 750 million.
At a time when the demand for instant retail fulfillment is becoming increasingly strong, how to better utilize the advantages of unmanned delivery, promote its normalization and large-scale application has also become a hot topic in the industry.
This time, Dada Express and the promotion of technology work together to promote the use of unmanned delivery "trolleys" of sidewalk logistics robots, will better utilize its advantages such as driving on non-motorized vehicle roads and relatively controllable costs, and explore more possibilities to promote the normalization and large-scale application of unmanned delivery.
(Figure 4: "Unicorn" sidewalk robot passes through the community pedestrian entrance)
In terms of road rights , this unmanned delivery "car" meets the requirements for the use of road rights of non-motor vehicles and can also drive safely on various trails. The sidewalk delivery robot that promotes technology is designed and manufactured strictly in accordance with the latest version of the national standards for electric non-motor vehicles. It has a capacity of 115 kilograms, a vehicle weighs only 50 kilograms, and a maximum speed of no more than 15 kilometers per hour, meeting the current " Road Traffic Safety Law " and most local regulations on the use of powered non-motor vehicle vehicles and non-motor vehicle road rights.
At the same time, the "unicorn" delivery robot completely adopts the same time-limiting assessment and compensation standards as human riders, and can achieve break-even bicycles in the small batch trial operation stage.
(Figure 5: "Unicorn" sidewalk machines can have elevator interaction capabilities)
Promotion Technology Co-founder Lu Yingxiang said that in order to achieve large-scale commercialized autonomous driving delivery products, it must be able to match functionally at the same time (can directly from the starting point to the end point), controllable cost (the unit of economic efficiency can match human power today), mature road rights (can legally operate in public scenarios), technically accessible (can realize real-scene service capabilities within the scope of visible resource investment), and several conditions are indispensable. As for robot terminal delivery, sidewalk robots are a product form that conforms to China's national conditions. Domestic companies have accumulated a lot of accumulation in road autonomous driving, but they have accumulated less of the unstructured road autonomous driving systems, data accumulation, roadside infrastructure and other key factors required by light mobile vehicles such as sidewalk robots. The implementation of technology is committed to filling these gaps. Shi Wenchen, the head of Dada Express Unmanned Delivery Business, said that Dada Unmanned Delivery Open Platform will work with partners to continuously explore cutting-edge trends in the industry, and down-to-earth promotion of the application of unmanned delivery in the field of instant delivery, providing end-of-term delivery with high efficiency, excellent experience, and reasonable cost-effective overall solutions, help merchants reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve user experience, and contribute their own strength to promoting the normalization and scale development of unmanned delivery.
