Before modern society, what manpower could not do was often left to mules and horses.
In the era of technology, all kinds of machinery and means of transport have become our technological mules.
But now, affected by the epidemic, in order to reduce the burden on people and reduce interpersonal contact, the unmanned vehicle driven by AI has become an excellent partner with us to fight the epidemic.
In fact, since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2019, there have been AI drivers in the team fighting the epidemic.
It may play a role in an unmanned delivery vehicle, an unmanned clearance vehicle, an unmanned killing car, an unmanned patrol car, and so on.
For example, the most frequent in recent times is probably the unmanned delivery vehicles that have played a role in the Shanghai epidemic.
Due to the closure and control of express delivery, a large number of daily necessities are trapped in the last mile of the community.
Unmanned delivery vehicles can solve this problem and are also the most urgently needed "technology partners" at present.
Although limited by the overall scale of unmanned delivery vehicles, the amount of investment is relatively small compared to the community, but it does alleviate the distribution pressure for some sealed communities.
The first to be put into use in Shanghai is the Magic Bag 20 from Meituan, a total of 50 units.
This "Rhu Man" is less than 2.5m long and can run 120km at a time, enough to work all day without "eating".
△ Meituan Magic Bag 20
The most important thing is the transport capacity, the one-time load can reach 150 kg, the loading volume is 550L, and the one-time cargo is worth ten delivery brothers.
The Magic Bag 20 is equipped with 3 long and medium-range lidars, 19 cameras, 2 millimeter wave radars and 9 ultrasonic radars from Hesai, fully armed, 360-degree real-time environmental perception without dead angles, and can identify obstacles within a range of 5cm-150m.
In fact, this is not the first time that meituan magic bag 20 has participated in the fight against the epidemic.
Last year' epidemic in Guangzhou, the Meituan Magic Bag 20 unmanned delivery truck entered the epidemic area of Guangzhou, responsible for the distribution of daily necessities in some communities, and this time it is also a serious anti-epidemic veteran.
△ JD.com's fifth-generation intelligent express delivery car
In addition to the Meituan Magic Bag 20, the Shanghai epidemic also has JD.com's fifth-generation intelligent express delivery car shuttle through it.
One was originally responsible for express delivery, and the other was responsible for takeaway delivery in the past.
The two unmanned vehicles are now delivering food to residents together in the sealed area of Shanghai, which is also a fate meeting.
Of course, there are several other products in Shanghai that are responsible for short-distance low-speed logistics in the role of unmanned vehicles.
△ Xingshen intelligent unmanned logistics vehicle in the square cabin hospital
For example, from the Xingshen intelligent unmanned logistics vehicles, a total of 61 units in shanghai fang cabin hospital and some communities for material distribution.
The maximum load of xingshen intelligent unmanned logistics vehicle can reach 400 kg, which should be the highest carrying capacity among the unmanned vehicles currently invested in Shanghai, and as a low-speed logistics vehicle in the square cabin, it can be described as quite powerful.
At the same time, there is also the terminal logistics automatic delivery vehicle of The Little Devil Camel. The little magic camel of the millimeter is actually a brother gear with the magic bag 20 of the US group, both of which are based on the "little magic disk" of the unmanned vehicle line control chassis of the milli-terminal zhixing.
Magic camels, magic bags, magic disks... this... Isn't there a silly sense of indistinguishability? The Meituan Magic Bag 20 and the Little Magic Camel are both low-speed unmanned vehicles.
As an artificial intelligence company for autonomous driving, the current three product lines of Zhixing are: small magic disk, small magic camel and small magic box.
△ The little magic camel of the community delivering food
The small magic disk represents the field of unmanned vehicle general wire control chassis, the small magic camel represents the field of low-speed unmanned logistics vehicles, and the small magic box represents the field of passenger car automatic driving.
In addition to the above-mentioned unmanned delivery vehicles, in the past few years, there have been a large number of unmanned disinfection vehicles and unmanned patrol vehicles involved.
Let's briefly list a few paragraphs.
For example, the Dongfeng Haring-VAN driverless killing car is based on the Dongfeng Sailing-X driverless sightseeing car, equipped with four 16L automatic disinfection sprayers, but it is not a real AI driving, but the use of 5G communication for remote driving.
Dongfeng Haring-VAN completed the disinfection route of about 1.1 kilometers in a single time, covering an area of up to 10,000 square meters of killing tasks, only takes 15 minutes, the same work, if manually to kill, it will take more than 2 hours.
In addition, there are neolithic unmanned vehicles, after the start of the epidemic last year, the footprints of neolithic unmanned vehicles appeared in Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu and other epidemic areas for material distribution and disinfection and spraying.
△ Neolithic unmanned disinfection vehicle
It can be loaded with 160 liters of disinfectant at a time, work at a speed of 5 km / h, cover 3-5 meters, and even automatically alert the police when it is detected that there is a gathering of people, or without masks.
It can be said that whether it is an unmanned delivery vehicle responsible for short-distance low-speed logistics, or an unmanned disinfection vehicle, etc., due to the need to reduce interpersonal contact factors caused by the new crown epidemic, unmanned vehicles have always been our right-hand man in the process of fighting the epidemic.
However, in the normal operation mode of daily life, due to the problem that unmanned vehicles cannot be well connected with people, such as unmanned delivery vehicles cannot express home, can not flexibly store pieces, etc., the value of unmanned vehicles has not been fully highlighted.
But at a time when the impact of the epidemic is becoming more and more serious, perhaps we will see more and more opportunities for these unmanned vehicles.