Ali Line is a smart logistics platform. The rookie network is laying out the field of driverless trucks. On January 22, a reporter from a person familiar with the situation learned that the Cainiao Network was conducting relevant tests on unmanned large trucks. According to the Alibaba.com open recruitment website, a reporter from the Alibaba News Group found that the rookie was still recruiting more than 30 talents in the driverless direction. The positions include: Unmanned vision system development experts, unmanned SLAM and navigation algorithm experts, unmanned system platform R&D engineers/experts, etc., working in Beijing and Hangzhou. It is reported that the rookie network has released the first unmanned delivery robot since around September 2016. This kind of robot is located in the community and it is not fast, but technically, it is actually driverless technology. After the dual 11 in 2017, the rookie network released an upgraded version of the unmanned robot. At the same time, it released a new, larger unmanned robotic robot, the Plass. Compared with a generation of robots, this robot is more The speed is faster, and from a structural point of view, it is already a vehicle structure. This means that the R&D direction of the rookie network is shifting from a simple community unmanned delivery robot to a self-driving vehicle. The Xin news reporter noticed that four days ago, a rookie network's automotive engineers knew that the rookie had continued to increase the research of the end-distribution robot, and the new pioneering direction was the unmanned large truck. From the description in the article, the rookie has found the application scenario of a driverless truck and will apply the driverless technology to a trunk truck. The rookie network car engineers disclosed that the new pioneering direction of the rookie was the driverless truck. “The driverless application scenario will inevitably lead the way in certain closed scenarios or special industries.†The above-mentioned rookie network’s automotive engineers believe that “Logistics companies are not so sensitive to the cost of bicycles. Now that the labor costs are getting higher and higher, The cost of nuclear driving down the drone will be lower than the labor cost in a few years. This is worth doing." “The logistics scene is dominated by low-speed scenes (last mile delivery) or high-speed conditions (heavy-card freight on trunk lines), the scenario is relatively simple, and the risks are relatively controllable. Therefore, the application of automatic driving technology has no problem with landing. "The above engineers believe that because most of the logistics industry is point-to-point transportation, it can concentrate charging, not relying on infrastructure, so the application of new energy technologies, the landing of the logistics industry is also very fast. At present, there are many players entering the field of autopilot. Apart from car companies, there are IT giants such as Baidu, Waymo, parts companies such as Nvidia, Mobileye, etc. There are also a number of self-driving startup companies with algorithms as their core, such as Horizon and ChiZi. Wait. The person familiar with the above mentioned pointed out to reporters from Xinhua that “At present, many companies including Daimler, Tesla, etc. are all entering the field of unmanned trucks. The rookie network will bring logistics scenarios to enter, or it will allow drone trucks to land more. It's easy."