[PConline Information] Automated and intelligent lazy people's full-time home life is not far away from us. Robots make our lives more convenient. We can use mobile phones to pick up courier at home, and online shopping booms continue to spread. Then the question arises. The courier does not stop at the lunch but does not stop receiving orders. The companies continue to fight low prices and fall into profit margins. As the current general judgment, although the achievements of the express delivery industry are obvious to all, but the development of the troubles are gradually exposed, the first is the continuous increase in consumer complaints. Delivery services, delays in shipments, and missing shorts are still problems in the industry.
Sending courier by robot can effectively improve the delivery efficiency, but due to policy restrictions and technical reasons (mainly life and avoid obstacles), it has not been widely promoted. Now, a startup company has developed a self-driving landline express delivery robot that is said to be more efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly than express delivery by drones. It will soon begin to be used in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Skype’s two founders are now targeting robotic delivery services. They created a company called Starship Technologies and developed a robot that can carry packages along the sidewalks. The average speed of these robots is 4 miles per hour. (About 6.4 km). The company’s goal is to allow the robot to carry two packages of a total weight of no more than 20 pounds (about 9 kilograms) in 5-30 minutes.
Starship developed this robot is said to be 99% of the automatic operation, which means that it can drive itself, but it also requires manual monitoring and control to prevent the robot "lost." During the delivery process of the robot, the parcels that are carried are locked tightly, and the recipient can only open it through their smart phones. This company will use a special application software, users rely on this application to track the robot's distribution process.
As the world's industrial development trends show, replacing robots with robots will be the next wave, and advanced automation and intelligence will be widely imagined in the coming years and more than ten years. For this idea, it also needs a realistic breakthrough. The content of the express delivery industry is relatively simple. Robots can first break through the industry and gradually integrate into the daily life of the public. Foreign companies such as Amazon are playing a vanguard role.
Due to the limitations of speed and distribution, the company has set up its own service center in some cities. The coverage of each point is not very large. The goal is to achieve 'three nos', ie no cost, no waiting time and no environmental impact. Landline express robot woodware is still in the prototype stage. It can carry two express parcels at one time and deliver the courier to the door of the target home. The receiving party can track the delivery location through the App. After the courier arrives, it needs to be unlocked through the App to be able to remove the parcel. The use of electric drive, low cost of use, and very environmentally friendly, in line with the concept of domestic energy-saving emission reduction.
This labor-intensive industry has indeed reached a watershed. Where will the breakthrough in shuffling be? Robots emerged across the globe to increase distribution efficiency while reducing labor costs. It is indeed difficult for people to imagine the drone's accurate delivery of goods to the hand. Moreover, robots are not cheap. It is the factors constrained by technology, cost, etc. The robot strategy is one of the directions for the upgrade of the express delivery industry in the future. The robot developed by Starship is driven by charging, which is definitely more environmentally friendly than traditional express vehicles.
The plan is for companies to ship large quantities of goods to the Starship Service Center. The company then dispatches robots to deliver the goods to consumers in batches. This is actually very similar to Amazon Prime Now's delivery service, except that Amazon is using a driver and the company is using a slow-moving robot.
When the artificial potential and scale effect have been developed to the limit, the upgrading of technological means becomes an inevitable choice. The replacement of manpower with robots is an inevitable continuation of this logic. The express industry should have come to a time when it is time to move from a labor-intensive industry identity to a knowledge-intensive industry. We look forward to seeing technology change everything once again.
Sensor structure:
A lens collects light of a particular color, and a color filter filters light of other colors, projecting one color onto the area
Connection mode of Sensor and substrate:
COB: Module takes the sensor die and connects the sensor to the substrate through the gold wire.
CSP/TSF: Sensor is connected to the substrate and packaged when shipped.
IR Cut and Blue Galss:
The function of IR Cut is to filter out the light frequency invisible to human eyes (reflected back). What human eyes can see is 400~700nm.
Blue Glass absorbs infrared rays, which are not easy to be reflected internally
The Image circle of the Lens needs to cover the sensor's sensitive area
Lens shading:
A condition in which light is unevenly distributed, such as when the center is lit and the outside is dimmed. This is mainly because most of the light is concentrated in the middle, and because different wavelengths of light are imprinted in different places
FOV:
The lens Angle of the module must be the same as that of the lens; otherwise, when the lens Angle is too large, dark Angle may appear.
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