Source I surging news

reporter I Xu Haifeng,Wang Yu

On 10 April 2025, an unmanned sweeping robot appeared in downtown Shanghai, the shape of the sweeping robot is similar to the traditional cleaning car shape, square and simple, nothing special, many pedestrians walked past, few people stopped to watch.

Sweeping robot along the road steps all the way forward, the robot's front section of the four rotating sweeping wheels will be on the ground rubbish "swallowed" into the middle of the car's stomach, no matter from what angle, this sweeping robot and the traditional cleaning car is not very different, the only difference is that the cab does not see the driver, the robot can still be a smooth and even speed! The only difference is that the cab does not see the driver, the robot can still move smoothly and evenly, and will automatically stop or go around when it encounters a roadblock in front of it. Unknown pedestrians, mistaken for a driver in the steering wheel.

According to the Huangpu City Development Group Shanghai Xin Sheng Times Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. Ye Jianyao introduction, this driverless cleaning robot since the end of last year in the People's Square area trial run, is Shanghai's first in public places to provide cleaning work of the cleaning robot, is still in the environmental scene of an adaptation stage, data collection work, when the specific formal on duty has not been timetable.

Run for a period of time down, the effect reached the expectations of all parties. Ye Jianyao introduction, unmanned cleaning robot can do 24 hours a day at any time into the work state, and character characteristics belong to the emotional stability type, which is difficult to do. Driverless cleaning robot daily workload set three shifts a day, along the square inner circle sweeping four laps. "In terms of operational efficiency and quality, I'd give it a 10," Ye Jianyao said with a smile.

At the same time, he also stressed that the area has more tourists and a lot of children, and pedestrians do not walk according to the rules on the pavement, ensuring human safety is the primary consideration. The travelling speed is currently set at 3 kilometres per hour.The vehicle's technology developer, Miss Luo Jinxiu of KUSA Technology's marketing department, said in an interview with Punch News thatthe body of the unmanned sweeping robotis equipped with seven cameras, and adoptsanAI vision-ledmulti-modal environment sensing schemeto accurately identify the environment and perform sweeping tasks.The use of apure vacuum system suction sweeping, strong suction can effectively remove the ground of the rubbish and leaves, even in the rainy days can maintain a more efficient cleaning effect, itscleanliness is more than 96%, theoperating accuracy can reach ± 2 cm.

In the scene reporter will be a wet A4 paper placed on the ground, the robot swept, white paper disappeared.

The emergence of unmanned cleaning robots will inevitably replace some of the manual work, robbing the human job, however, the actual situation does not seem to be the case, the two co-operative units stressed: the current sanitation industry is facing the aging of manpower, complex operating conditions and poor operating environment and other challenges,to promote the "man-machine collaboration" of the new model of sanitation Become a real demand, rather than a simple replacement of manual labour.Luo Jinxiu believes that robots can undertake high-intensity, repetitive tasks, such as large-area sweeping and inclement weather operations, while sanitation workers shift to higher-value jobs, such as fine cleaning and equipment supervision, to improve overall operational efficiency, save labour costs in the long term, and reduce the exposure of sanitation workers to high temperatures, severe cold, and hazardous traffic environments, as well as improve occupational health and safety. Ye Jianyao analysed that in the case of complex roads, it is difficult to improve operational efficiency. Driverless sweeping robots can basically take on the task of covering an entire neighbourhood, but that doesn't mean the robots can do all the cleaning projects, so everyday workers are also tasked with flushing the bottom of ditches and cleaning out waste bins.

In order to test the driverless cleaning robot's IQ, at the scene surging news reporter gave it two questions. In the driverless cleaning robot normal forward process, suddenly let a person from the vehicle in front of the distance of five or six metres sprinted past, cleaning robot perception immediately stopped; in a man-made barricades, the robot can be done to go around and through, but taking into account the People's Square area of the large flow of people, around the process of the body will have a certain degree of left and right offset, triggering the potential risk of abrasion, the technology company did not take a large-scale around the way to let the robot through the roadblock, the robot can be done to let the robot pass through the roadblock. Instead, the technology company did not adopt a large-scale detour to let the robot pass the barricade, but issued a tone to ask pedestrians to leave, or wait for the barricade to be removed before passing through the sweeping. At this stage, unmanned cleaning robots are monitored by safety officers.

It is understood that the current market of unmanned cleaning robots using multi-sensor fusion technology to provide comprehensive environmental awareness capabilities, combined with fusion algorithms, to make a more comprehensive understanding of the surrounding environment, based on the data to make the appropriate decision to avoid obstacles.