Beijing Eastern Express unmanned delivery vehicles by netizens exposed: learn from foreign advanced experience-East, logistics, robot-IT information
Information on IT a few days ago, East Beijing Group announced that by its independent research and development path of unmanned delivery vehicles have entered the test phase in October, will begin trial operation, is expected to be a large business. According to the Jingdong this delivery vehicles can be achieved for urban environment Office, community convenience store orders, centralized location for bulk delivery, flexibility and convenience will greatly enhance the efficiency of distribution of Jingdong.
Jingdong using unmanned equipment delivery is not the first, before Amazon and other e-commerce has begun test deliveries in remote areas using unmanned equipment, but in East Beijing this no delivery van appearance after a sharp-eyed netizens found the design with a robot very similar to foreign, especially above the antenna is quite vivid.
Following figure of the robot is called "the box robot" Heinla Skype founders Friis's Starship company launch. So called, because it looks like a box with with six wheels, it can carry 20 lb (about 9 kg) of cargo, far reaches Logistics Center radius of 1 mile (about 1.6 km) range. Due to its hardware configuration on a series of cameras and sensors, to ensure their safe walking on the sidewalk, starting at a specified time from the Logistics Center, across the street, came to the customers door complete the express tasks.
In the distribution process, the package is being carried by tightly sealed, the receiver only through their smart phones can open. Starship says, this networked robots up to deliver two bags of grocery goods, can handle the 95% package. It costs cheaper than human Express 5-15, current courier fees for an average of $ 5-15 per trip, Starship called the future can be cut to $ 1.
Of course, for this to function as the main design of the robots don't have to too much entangled in appearance, designed to distinguish between the two is very large, as to who is more suitable for the delivery of goods can only be comparing East logistics robot was officially launched in Beijing.
京东快递无人配送车被网友曝光：借鉴国外先进经验 - 京东,物流,机器人 - IT资讯
IT资讯讯 前几天，京东集团对外宣布，由其自主研发的无人配送车已经进入道路测试阶段，10月份即将开始试运营，明年有望进行大规模商用。据京东介绍这款配送车能够实现针对城市环境下办公楼、小区便利店等订单集中场所进行批量送货，其灵活性和便捷性将大大提升京东的配送效率。
采用无人设备送货并非京东首创，在之前亚马逊等电商已经开始测试采用无人设备为偏远地区送货，不过在京东此款无人送货车亮相之后有眼尖网友发现其设计与国外一款机器人非常相似，尤其是上面的天线颇为传神。
下图的这款机器人被称为“盒子机器人”，由Skype创始人Heinla与Friis旗下的Starship公司推出。之所以这么称呼，是因为它的外形像极了一个配有六个轮子的储物盒，它最重可承载20磅（约合9公斤）的货物，最远可达到物流中心方圆1英里（约合1.6公里）多的范围。由于其硬件上配置了一系列摄像头和传感器，能够保障其安全行走在人行道上，在指定时间从物流中心出发，穿越大街小巷，来到顾客家门口完成快递任务。
在配送过程中，所携带的包裹都是被严密封锁，接收者只有通过其智能手机才能打开。Starship表示，这台联网机器人最多可运送两袋食杂货物，能够处理95%的包裹。它的成本比人力快递便宜5-15倍，目前的平均快递费为每趟5-15美元，Starship称未来可以削减至1美元。
当然，对于这种以功能性为主要设计理念的机器人完全不必在外观上过多纠结，从设计上来看两者区分度很大，至于究竟谁更适合运送货物或许只能在京东物流机器人正式启动才能比较。