Niuwa Robotics' Yang Ruigang: Why the Last Few Hundred Meters of Unmanned Delivery Struggle to Reach the Door

A TMTPost interview and analysis of Niuwa Robotics founder Yang Ruigang notes that after a decade of unmanned delivery development, China's logistics unmanned vehicle fleet exceeds 35,000 units and more than 200 cities have opened road rights, yet the last few hundred meters—entering residential compounds, boarding elevators, and delivering to the doorstep—remain unsolved. Most explorations at home and abroad, including JD.com, Cainiao, and Amazon Scout, have largely exited. The core reasons are ambiguous rules for private spaces, high deployment costs, and the need for human fallback for exceptions; no company has ever made this account profitable.