Robovans Officially Deployed for Delivery Services in Suzhou
Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta announced on July 28 that its unmanned delivery vehicle, Robovan, has officially begun operations in Xiangcheng District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, primarily for urban parcel delivery. Momenta states that the Robovan aims to address the 'last-mile' challenge in urban supply chains and emphasizes that the vehicle employs a self-developed 'map-free' technology, enabling operation without high-precision maps to accelerate deployment and lower delivery costs.
Momenta has been developing robotaxis since 2021, and the launch of the Robovan marks the company's first application of autonomous driving technology in the logistics sector. The company claims that the Robovan's technology meets automotive-grade safety standards, providing safe and reliable delivery services for the unmanned logistics industry.
12 Billion Kilometers of Driving Data Underpin Technological Iteration
Momenta attributes the technological advantages of the Robovan to its vast data accumulation. To date, the company has amassed over 12 billion kilometers of real-world driving data from production passenger vehicles and distilled more than 100 million high-quality 'golden' data segments from this dataset. These data segments are used to train the company's self-developed R7 World Model, which has already been deployed in production vehicles and is regarded as a key driver for cross-scenario applications of autonomous driving technology.