Yandex began delivering commercial cargo using unmanned trucks. The first drone based on the Chinese platform Shacman X6000 has already delivered products from the Yandex market from Moscow to Tula, the company’s press service told RB.RU.
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They noted that now unmanned trucks deliver goods from Moscow to Tula along the M-4 Don highway during the day, and in the future “they will begin to travel back and forth at night.” The company intends to operate these flights weekly.
In the first stage, the drones will travel with a driver in the cabin. The main task now is to collect data to launch “a fully autonomous cargo transport without a test driver,” Yandex explained. The information collected will also be used to train neural networks that are responsible for planning the trajectory of the cars.
Yandex has been developing an autonomous driving system since 2017. The company is currently testing driverless cars in Moscow, Innopolis (Tatarstan) and Sirius (Sochi).
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Self-driving cars in Russia can drive on public roads under an experimental legal regime adopted in March 2022.
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In 2023, Kamaz, Sberavtotech and other companies launched drone tests on the M-11 Neva highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2024, the circulation of autonomous trucks will be opened along its entire length.
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That same year, the government allowed the launch of unmanned cargo transport along the M-12 Vostok highway between Moscow and Kazan, as well as along the Central Ring Road in the Moscow region.
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