JD’s Seven Fresh rolls out autonomous vehicles in Shenzhen

The fully automated vehicles can travel for up to 100 kilometres.

JD.com’s fresh food supermarket Seven Fresh has rolled out autonomous vehicles in Shenzhen to ensure food supply with contact-free delivery amidst a surge in COVID-19 cases in China, the company said in a news release.

Fully automated and capable of traveling up to 100 kilometres, the vehicles are equipped with a laser sensor camera in order to avoid obstacles automatically.

After consumers place an order through the Seven Fresh application, the supermarket staff pack the goods and load them into the storage compartments of the autonomous vehicles, which are then ready to deliver to the consumers.

Five Seven Fresh stores in Shenzhen quadrupled the stock of over 10 product categories, including fresh vegetables, rice, cooking oil, drinking water, milk, frozen food as well as instant food as a response to the spike in infections, the company said.