Cainiao, the logistics arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, recently deployed a total of 22 logistics robots at Zhejiang University to meet demand for parcel delivery, making it the 1st university in China to replace manual delivery works by robots.
With over 70,000 students and faculties, the campus’ volume of express parcels has been of the highest among campuses of universities and colleges across the country.
The robots were expected to deliver over 3,000 parcels per day to customers in 27 buildings in the campus within 10 minutes after their online reservation for delivery.
