Unmanned distribution may become a breakthrough point in smart logistics

Everyone has a deep understanding of the corresponding speed of e-commerce logistics and the continuous improvement of services. In the view of many e-commerce platforms, under the trend of more and more homogenization of goods, logistics services can be improved to further improve Building barriers to competition has become a consensus. Both JD Logistics and Cainiao Network have become one of the most important service systems of JD.com and Alibaba. How to make logistics more "smart" has become the key to competition among major logistics platforms.
Drone delivery will enter normal operation
On June 8 last year, JD’s drones completed the first rural delivery in Caoji Township, Suqian, Jiangsu. Since the beginning of this year, the strategic planning of JD UAV has become more and more clear. It has formulated a three-level navigable UAV logistics network layout including trunk lines, branch lines and terminal distribution, and completed the UAV flight control dispatch center, flight service center, and research and development center. The landing of a series of supporting technologies and facilities such as manufacturing centers has greatly promoted the development of JD’s drone industry. In June this year, JD’s drones launched normal operations in Xi’an and Suqian. As of July 31, more than 800 sorties, more than 4,000 kilometers, and more than 14,000 minutes of operational flights have been completed in Xi'an alone.
A few days ago, Jingdong Group signed five cooperation agreements with the government, enterprises, universities and other partners for the development of the drone industry in Xi'an. The agreements cover key demonstration projects, talent training, scientific research development, technology landing aspect. It is reported that in February this year, JD.com signed a strategic cooperation agreement on smart logistics with the Shaanxi provincial government, and reached a series of consensus on the development of the drone industry. The two parties will join hands to build the "world's first low-altitude drone logistics network".
In the opinion of industry insiders, the maturity of JD’s drone technology and application will greatly improve the low efficiency, high cost and poor user experience of traditional rural logistics, and will also create more application scenarios for general aviation logistics operations such as agricultural products upstream. , improve the resource circulation efficiency of the whole society.
Robotic warehouse improves picking efficiency
For major logistics distribution platforms, how to make distribution more "smart" has undoubtedly become the focus of industry competition, and making the distribution process "unmanned" has become the main development direction of today's major logistics distribution platforms.
According to a reporter from Nanfang Daily, Cainiao Network has now set up a logistics and warehousing fund with a scale of 8.5 billion yuan with China Life Insurance to further deploy smart logistics infrastructure. Cainiao has also promoted the use of artificial intelligence technology in more Tmall warehouses. In June this year, Tmall's warehouse center in Guangdong launched China's largest intelligent logistics robot warehouse, which can triple the efficiency of picking. above. Controlled by algorithms, these robots can automatically lift and move around, avoid each other and queue up, representing the highest level of robotic warehouses in China.
JD.com has also made a layout in the "unmanned" smart logistics. As the only intelligent robot sorting center in the global e-commerce industry, the JD. Automated conveying channels, more than 300 intelligent sorting robots all adopt a new generation of intelligent algorithm automatic sorting systems, and during this year's 618, JD.com's unmanned vehicles have also completed the delivery of packages.
“The robot can memorize all the data and can then make the whole ride very safe. Once you have accurate 3D imaging, you can do very unexpected effects. In other words, new technology can discover things that weren’t there before. Solutions, and higher precision." At the "2017 Global Automotive AI Conference" held recently, Sebastian Thrun, the father of Google's unmanned vehicles, gave a high degree of affirmation to the future "unmanned" transportation equipment. From the perspective of industry insiders, with the application of more "unmanned" equipment in the logistics and distribution industry, "smart logistics" will become a real high-quality experience from "talking on paper".