[?Yiou Introduction?]?The era of unmanned services replacing manpower is coming. Author丨Yang Yaru?Editor Zhangnan丨Zhang Yan In the Oriental Intelligent Manufacturing Port in Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, Wu Xin (pseudonym) is waiting for his lunch

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Soon, he received a text message containing a verification code to remind him: an unmanned delivery vehicle was delivering lunch to him.

After putting on the mask and going downstairs, the unmanned car just walked up to him.

Pick up your meal, go upstairs, and not come into contact with anyone.

The self-driving car acts as a delivery boy and can deliver up to 200 meals per trip.

After the staff loads the meal boxes into the unmanned vehicle, select a destination, and the vehicle will automatically plan a delivery route to "deliver to your door."

In epidemic areas where the atmosphere is more tense, intelligent delivery robots are delivering medicines and daily necessities to patients - one robot can replace two people, greatly reducing the work pressure of medical staff.

At the beginning of 2020, the sudden epidemic disrupted the rhythm of people's production and life, and also pushed "baby-walking" unmanned vehicles to large-scale applications.

Companies keenly aware of the changes acted quickly. In addition to large companies such as Meituan, Cainiao, and JD.com, companies such as Zhixingzhe, Gosuncn, and Uisee Technology have sent their products to all parts of China.

Delivery, disinfection, temperature measurement, a series of services that previously required manual labor have been "unmanned".

Tabulator/Yiou Auto Analyst? Zhang Nan’s broad market prospects have attracted capital to chase after him.

And when ordinary people no longer look at this "extraterrestrial car" with curiosity, will it be a flash in the pan or will it last forever?

01 Go to Wuhan, go to the whole country. In Wuhan, an operation on unmanned vehicles to assist the epidemic has already begun.

On February 6, a "courier boy" shuttled through the streets of Wuhan and finally successfully delivered medical supplies to Wuhan Ninth Hospital - the first smart delivery order in Wuhan.

What completed this delivery was an intelligent robot with L4 autonomous driving technology.

In this rescue operation, the list of aid companies for unmanned vehicles is still growing, including large companies such as Baidu and JD.com, and some startups have also entered Wuhan.

Tabulator/Yio Auto Analyst? Yang Yaru saw the infection data skyrocketing on the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and Zhang Dezhao, CEO of Zhimoker, felt the urgency of the situation.

These days, Wuhan's version of "Xiaotangshan" Huoshenshan Hospital is under 24-hour emergency construction.

Therefore, Zhang Dezhao urgently summoned several colleagues who stayed in Beijing for the New Year to discuss countermeasures and decided to upgrade the previous sanitation sweepers and delivery vehicles into unmanned vehicles that can clean, disinfect, and be suitable for delivery in hospitals and other scenes.

A few days after the Intelligent Walker Disinfection Sweeper/Image Source Company provided it, Intelligent Walker was introduced by some investors and friends, and demand continued to come to our door.

Subsequently, vehicles donated by it, together with partners and charitable organizations, began to be put into use in hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guizhou and other places.

Before entering the Vulcan Mountain, Zhixingzhe specially recruited two volunteers.

"When the demand was posted that day, I didn't expect so many volunteers to respond. Soon we found two suitable candidates." This moved Zhang Dezhao.

Previously, Wuhan had only opened access to medical supplies and daily necessities. On the morning after getting the pass, Zhixue sent out three cleaning and disinfection vehicles.

On February 25, the Zhixue car officially started running at Huoshenshan Hospital.

During this period, White Rhino CEO Zhu Lei also felt heavy.

"I'm not a doctor or nurse, so I can't go to the front line to treat patients. My specialty is unmanned vehicle logistics and distribution, so what can we do?" he asked himself.

So, we held a conference call with the team overnight, and after repeated discussions, the whole company made a decision - to drive unmanned vehicles to Wuhan, and use unmanned vehicles to replace part of the human work and deliver supplies.

But there was a question about who to send, so Zhu Lei naturally became the obligatory candidate and formed a team with two other colleagues.

On February 12, official data reported that Wuhan had more than 10,000 new cases overnight. This data made Zhu Lei feel a little upset.

As a father of two children, Zhu Lei had to communicate with his wife and finally gained her understanding and support.

On February 17, three members of Zhu Lei’s team set out from Beijing and drove all the way to Wuhan.

The closer they got to Wuhan, the more nervous the three people became.

Entering Wuhan, an empty city appeared before the three of them, and anxiety spread in the air.

Subsequently, after many contacts and arrangements, on the afternoon of February 19, under the leadership of Zhu Lei, the White Rhino team’s unmanned vehicle officially entered Wuhan Optics Valley Fangcang Hospital and took on the responsibility of delivering drugs and supplies from safe areas to dangerous areas.

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Not only Wuhan, unmanned vehicles have entered all parts of the country.

Robots deliver supplies to Hubei Huanggang Central Hospital/Photo source provided by the company On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Tao, CEO of Pudu Technology, received two calls, one from Hangzhou and one from Shenzhen.

The customer's demand is to use Pudu's automated meal delivery solution in the isolation ward to deliver meals and medicines to suspected patients.

From talking about the mobilization meeting late at night the next morning, in the afternoon, Purdue engineers went to the front line and delivered 6 robots to a hotel isolation point in Shenzhen.