With the introduction of unmanned vehicle delivery, smart robot delivery will gradually replace human delivery in the future. For takeaway riders, it may not necessarily be your peers who compete for orders with you in the future, but they may also be robots. . This happened on April 19 this year. Meituan’s new generation of self-developed unmanned delivery vehicles was officially put into operation in Shunyi, Beijing. In the next three years, Meituan expects to use this unmanned delivery vehicle in Beijing, Shenzhen, etc. It has been implemented in more cities to realize unmanned delivery services in business scenarios such as takeout, grocery shopping, and flash sales.

The emergence of this unmanned delivery technology is actually the unmanned delivery spurred by the epidemic. Although many people are unwilling to accept and believe it, it is a general trend that many high-density repetitive labor tasks will be replaced by intelligent machines in the future. After the outbreak last year, in order to facilitate people quarantined at home to purchase fresh food, the Meituan autonomous driving team came up with the idea of ??putting unmanned vehicles into delivery operations as soon as possible. The technology was quickly implemented in early February last year. As of April this year, the service scope of unmanned vehicles has been expanded to more than 20 communities in Shunyi, and a total of more than 30,000 orders have been delivered. Despite this, the final door-to-door delivery still requires personnel. In the future, couriers and food delivery boys will only be responsible for communication between people in the last few hundred meters.

According to relevant surveys, in terms of outdoor unmanned delivery, driven by the huge market size of instant delivery and express delivery services, and against the background of China’s declining labor force, unmanned delivery vehicles have become a major choice for major enterprises. Actively deploying products, in addition to new companies such as Neolithic, Zhixingzhi, and White Rhino, e-commerce and logistics companies such as JD.com, Meituan, Cainiao, Suning, and Postal Service are also actively developing business. According to the current information disclosed by various companies, China's unmanned delivery vehicles have begun small batch production, but have not yet reached large-scale production.

This puts a lot of pressure on the employment of courier boys. Maybe in the future, there will be no need for so many courier boys. The implementation of the operation of unmanned delivery vehicles will definitely greatly reduce the workload of various delivery platforms. labor costs, while also improving work efficiency.