Meituan Technology Team

Jul 29, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Meituan's Drone Delivery: Vision, Challenges, and Business Logic

Meituan is building a low‑altitude drone network that delivers food, medicine and other goods within minutes, treating drones as autonomous “airborne robots” that complement human couriers, with over 300 engineers developing in‑house technology, ensuring safety, reducing noise, gaining community acceptance, and lowering costs over a 5‑10‑year horizon to create an L5‑level, dynamically dispatched system that, while not immediately profitable, promises societal and technological value.