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Food Delivery Robot Market Sales Reached 1.16 Billion, Will Meituan Rise Again?

Nov 21, 2022

In recent years, the robot industry has developed more and more rapidly, and robots can be seen in many fields such as industry, agriculture, and service industries. With the continuous progress of the times, the development of catering culture is in full swing, and the continuous application of food delivery robots can also be seen in restaurants. According to statistics, by the end of 2020, the market size of China's food delivery robots has reached 1.16 billion, far exceeding the size of previous years. What is unique about the rapid development of food delivery robots, and what will be the future development trend? These are some of the problems faced by the development of food delivery robots at this stage. It is understood that food delivery robots can improve work efficiency to a certain extent, and can provide a full range of services in terms of receiving guests, delivering dishes, and cleaning. At the same time, it can also reduce the cost of restaurant employment and bring more benefits to restaurants. Relatively speaking, food delivery robots also have some problems. A restaurant staff who has used the robot said: "The robot can only move along the preset track, and there will be frequent crashes, delivery of the wrong table, etc. Our work brings more trouble.” Therefore, the immaturity of the technology has also caused a poor experience with the food delivery robot, thus increasing the work content of employees for no reason.


Nowadays, with the continuous advancement of technology, relevant personnel of Purdue Technology said that the company's newly developed happy delivery robot uses the PuduSLAM multi-sensor fusion SLAM (instant positioning and map construction) solution, which can achieve centimeter-level real-time positioning and extremely fast Obstacle avoidance ensures that robots can perform tasks more efficiently in mixed environments. With the development of this technology, the use of food delivery robots will gradually usher in a climax. Due to the promising development prospects of food delivery robots, Meituan, a giant in the field of food delivery at home and abroad and a strategic investor in Purdue Technology, has also developed a strong interest in this technology. Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan, once said that in order to make technological innovation valuable to Meituan, the business development of Meituan requires not only the support of software, but also the cooperation of hardware, and robotics is currently one of the key areas of Meituan’s investment. Therefore, Meituan hopes that this cooperation can digitize the supply side and accelerate the onlineization of the service industry. Wang Xing said that Meituan has completed the test of unmanned delivery. He believes that robots are very important as a kind of intelligent hardware. Driven by various advanced technologies including robots, there is still huge potential in the field of life services to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Therefore, Meituan is using cutting-edge technology The means to make the service run more efficiently and better, and create a better experience for users. According to public data, Meituan has invested in the field of science and technology in 2020, including: Purdue Robots (restaurant robots), Yinghe Robots, Gaoxian Robots, robots used in warehouses and general-purpose intelligent robots, and the next generation Companies related to electric vehicles and autonomous driving, etc. In addition, Meituan also maintains a focus on cutting-edge technological fields such as biotechnology and agricultural technology. It can be seen that in addition to the field of food delivery robots, Meituan has a wide layout in other robot scenarios, which shows its great ambitions in the development of robots. In the future, can Meituan successfully cross the border, make a breakthrough in the field of robotics such as food delivery robots, and become a "spoiler" in the fierce competition of the robotics industry? We will wait and see.

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