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Meituan autonomous delivery vehicle
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RetiredSucceeded by Meituan new-generation delivery vehicle ChinaFully autonomous

Meituan · driverless delivery vehicle

Meituan autonomous delivery vehicle

Small driverless delivery vans that carried groceries from a station to pickup points within about 5 km.

Price
—Not published
Autonomy
DriverlessHow it runs
Driverless
—Not published
Fleet
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Range
—Not published
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Why it matters

Meituan's first driverless deliveries on open roads, used for contact-free grocery delivery in Beijing during COVID-19.

Real-world use

Two vehicles in Shunyi, Beijing from February 2020; about 35,000 orders by early 2021.

Timeline

First shown
2020-02
Released
2020
Pilot deliveries in Shunyi, Beijing

Maker

MeituanCompany · Beijing, China

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current vehicles.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. The vans drove their delivery routes with nobody aboard, with remote staff monitoring them.
Sensors & vision
Lidar, radar and cameras with machine-learning software
Other details
Up to 100 kg across five orders per trip; designed in-house

Lineage

Every Meituan vehicle in order.

  1. Meituan autonomous delivery vehicleMeituan autonomous delivery vehicle2020Retired
  2. Meituan new-generation delivery vehicleMeituan new-generation delivery vehicle2021Commercial
  3. Meituan fourth-generation delivery droneMeituan fourth-generation delivery drone2025Commercial
  4. No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useM-Drone 4L Winch2026Commercial

Watch Meituan autonomous delivery vehicle

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Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Built
Two vehicles in the February 2020 Shunyi pilot
Customers and pilots
Meituan grocery customers in Shunyi, Beijing

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Meituan pilots driverless deliveries in Beijing

    TechNode reported Meituan running two in-house delivery vehicles in Shunyi, each carrying up to 100 kg across five orders.

    TechNode

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

TechNode Meituan is piloting driverless deliveries in Beijing Caixin Global Meituan starts operation of new unmanned delivery vehicle in Beijing

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