The Transporter

Product Design

Replacing the courier — gently.

The Transporter is an autonomous last-mile vehicle for food delivery. Built on the CCIV distributed unmanned chassis, it splits a takeaway run into a shared platform underneath and a brand-customizable cargo body on top — designed to slot into the dense, time-pressured flow of Chinese cities as autonomous driving matures.

A pair on the production floor — same chassis, swappable cargo box.
A pair on the production floor — same chassis, swappable cargo box.
### A thirty-minute window

The average takeaway in a tier-one Chinese city moves through three actors — restaurant, courier, customer — across roughly half an hour. The middle stretch is where the system breaks down: couriers stack overlapping orders, safety thins, ETAs slip. The Transporter is designed to compress that window without removing the human from the rest of the chain.

Current vs. autonomous-vehicle market structure — the courier link is replaced by a fleet of self-driving boxes dispatched from neighborhood depots.
Current vs. autonomous-vehicle market structure — the courier link is replaced by a fleet of self-driving boxes dispatched from neighborhood depots.
### Built on CCIV

The chassis is the CCIV distributed unmanned platform — independent in-wheel drive at all four corners, suspension and steering integrated per corner, sensors and compute distributed along the perimeter. Every cargo body sits on the same lower half: battery, drive, suspension, X86 + ARM compute, radar / IR / camera sensing. Universal hardware below, swappable upper.

Top-down view — distributed drive, sensing, and compute around the perimeter.
Top-down view — distributed drive, sensing, and compute around the perimeter.
### Sensors at the curb
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The cargo body lifts cleanly off the chassis — service one, refit the other, dispatch both.
The cargo body lifts cleanly off the chassis — service one, refit the other, dispatch both.
### A four-drawer cargo box

Inside the upper body: four independently-opening drawers, an insulated lining, anti-tilt restraints, and a temperature-controlled inner shell. Hot, cold, fragile, liquid — anything a courier carries today fits into one of the four compartments. Each drawer unlocks only for the customer it’s assigned to.

Each drawer holds one order — the right meal opens for the right customer.
Each drawer holds one order — the right meal opens for the right customer.
### One platform, every brand

The cargo body is a paint-and-print canvas. Same shell, same drawers, same chassis — different liveries, different placements of the LED ID strip, different door graphics. A fleet operator runs the platform; brands lease the surface.

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On the curb — quiet enough to disappear into the street.
On the curb — quiet enough to disappear into the street.