BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): EHang Holdings Ltd, a leading technology company in autonomous aerial vehicles, or AAVs, is beefing up efforts to promote the commercial operations of passenger-carrying autonomous air taxis and expand its footprint in the global urban air mobility industry.
Late last month, Zhang Qian, 27, who works as an accountant with an internet company in Yizhuang, a southern suburb of Beijing, picked up her take-out orders without any human interaction from an unmanned four-wheeled delivery vehicle that appeared at the gate of her community, and got first-hand experience of a new era for consumers.
Unmanned aerial vehicles revolutionizing logistics, delivery services in China By FAN FEIFEI | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-25 10:16 Share CLOSE An aerial supply drone of e-commerce platform JD takes off in Suqian, Jiangsu province, to deliver goods to a nearby village. [Photo/Xinhua]
Chinese logistics companies are beefing up efforts to apply unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, to logistics and delivery activities, as part of a broader drive to enhance logistics efficiency and lower delivery costs in rural areas, as well as gain an edge in the fiercely competitive marketplace.
Rakuten Inc, a Japanese internet services company, recently completed a successful demonstration of delivering supplies via drone flights in a mountainous region in Japan by leveraging the drones and technology of JD Logistics, a unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.