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(photo source: techcrunch) according to foreign media reports, another company began to test small self driving distribution vehicles. Yandex, a Russian search and service giant, wants to expand its business to the field of automatic transportation. Based on its vehicles, yandex has deployed a 6-wheel delivery robot, which adopts the style of "small refrigerator with wheels" similar to starship robotics. Yandex named the small self driving robot rover, which carries a complete set of sensors, including a lidar array on the top, and its driving speed is equivalent to the "average walking speed" of people. It also carries software that can detect and avoid pedestrians, pets and other objects on the sidewalk. The initial tests will be carried out in the company's Moscow campus, under a variety of weather conditions, both day and night. Yandex's headquarters in Moscow has more than 7000 employees, and the park has office buildings, restaurants, parking lots and other facilities. Yandex will provide food distribution and grocery distribution services to users through its yandex.eats and yandex.lavka platforms. In addition, the company also has its own e-commerce platform Beru, and may provide small commodity distribution services for users in the future. The company also said Rovers can find their own "home" in their storage and data centers when they deliver in the office. The biggest difference between yandex self driving delivery robot and other similar products is that yandex has many other businesses, many of which can benefit from the last mile delivery service. Companies such as postmates and Amazon also have such businesses, while starship and other companies focused on the development of freight robots need to sell their robots to customers to earn revenue. In terms of internal business scope, yandex may have unique advantages, and small self driving wheeled delivery robots may bring them many chain reactions.