Original title: Meituan plans to achieve large-scale commercial use of drones within 5 years
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On July 8, Meituan’s UAV was officially unveiled for the first time. Wang Puzhong, Senior Vice President of Meituan and President of Daojia Business Group, said that the city’s low-altitude flight has begun to shift from civilian shooting to large-scale industrial use. The city’s low-altitude logistics network will become an important opportunity for technological innovation in the next ten and twenty years. The combination of drones + life scenes is the best way to build a low-altitude logistics network.
Wang Puzhong said that Meituan’s low-altitude logistics network consists of drones that undertake actual delivery tasks, automated airports, and intelligent dispatch management systems that meet regulatory requirements and can be monitored in real time. More than 90% of the components of the core system of Meituan UAV are independently developed by Meituan, which integrates multiple technologies such as flight control navigation system, multi-mode perception system, fusion positioning system, scene recognition system and so on.
In an exclusive interview with a reporter from China Business News, Meituan Vice President and Head of UAV Business Mao Yiyi said that he plans to achieve large-scale commercial use of UAVs in about five years. The newly released drones and the new generation of unmanned vehicles released in April of this year will complement human distribution in the future.
“Unmanned vehicles have higher weight capacity than takeaway brothers, and can deliver heavier living materials such as rice. At the same time, unmanned vehicles can also supplement capacity in extreme weather. The characteristics of drones are’fast’, and they can deliver some For emergency needs such as medicine, the speed of drones is faster than human delivery and unmanned vehicles.” He told reporters.
Mao Yiyi also revealed that Meituan UAVs will further improve safety in the next step, while continuing to deepen their range and endurance capabilities. In commercial use, improving the acceptance of drones by ordinary users is also the key.
As of June 2021, Meituan UAVs have completed more than 200,000 flight tests and delivered more than 2,500 real orders.
Pan Helin, executive dean and professor of the Institute of Digital Economics of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, told CBN reporters that UAVs can achieve straight-line transportation and shorter delivery distances, which can reduce manpower and improve user experience, allowing logistics companies The business is more technological. At the same time, it is possible to change the basic pattern of the distribution industry by improving the drone distribution model. In the future, low-altitude logistics may become the mainstream direction of distribution.
From the perspective of technological development, domestic drone delivery is still in its infancy, and full-scale commercialization is still relatively far away. Foreign drone delivery has seen a wave of craze in the past few years, but with the emergence of some security incidents, there have been It’s getting colder. In terms of drone technology, with the maturity of head drone enterprise technology, my country’s technology is in a leading position in the world.
However, there are still many difficulties in the delivery of drones. Pan Helin said that, for example, the issue of air bans, not all areas can use drones. From the perspective of landing, there is a certain distance between testing and commercial use, especially ordinary people do not understand drones, and there are many problems in the process of contacting drones.
For enterprises, the most test of developing drones is the ability to solve problems, such as the entry of drones into the no-fly field, and how to deal with these problems when the drone is out of control.
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