Yandex will create a separate address for autonomous transport

The Yandex B2B technology group, together with the cloud business and Yandex 360, will include unmanned technologies that previously belonged to “promising areas of development.” In 2024, the total revenues of the segment amounted to 124 billion rubles. The direction of unmanned vehicles will be headed by Sergey Melnik, who was previously responsible for Alice’s voice assistant and Yandex’s smart devices. Your team will develop and promote decisions for the commercial sector.

Why is this business? According to the company, drones are already beginning to perform commercial functions: autonomous trucks carry out transport along the Moscow route, and hostage robots registered more than 480 thousand delivery in Moscow, Sochi and Innopolis (Kazan). Yandex is sure that the demand for autonomous cargo transport will grow between postal and messaging services, as well as the markets that experience a driver deficit.

Perspectives The vice president of the center of Innopolis, the unmanned technologies, Alexander Tatarchin, said that the new Yandex address can begin to obtain profits after two or three years, however, the nuances of using unmanned vehicles (including technical standards and operational rules) are not regulated in Russia, since the legislative base is missing.

• Previously, the Ministry of Transportation prepared a draft order from the Government, which will contribute to the mass appearance of automated vehicles on Russian roads. In “Yakov and Partners” it was observed that the economic effect of the introduction of vehicles not manned in Russia can reach 4.6 billion annual rubles.