At 10:00 PM, inside the Pingshan grid warehouse station in Shenzhen, JD Logistics' "Lone Wolf" smart delivery vehicle finishes loading and heads for the Longgang District. This marks the first time Shenzhen has granted nighttime right of way to functional unmanned vehicles. The two routes, spanning over 50 kilometers in total, connect multiple logistics nodes across Pingshan and Longgang, supporting nighttime replenishment of front warehouses at the stations.

According to a representative of JD Logistics, the same vehicle carries out last-mile delivery in the morning and travels across districts to Longgang at night. Along the way, it picks up and delivers goods at front warehouses and instant delivery warehouses, balancing inter-warehouse transshipment and last-mile delivery. Over the past year, Shenzhen's unmanned delivery has evolved from single-point pilots to an inter-district network. More than 2,000   daytime routes have been launched, covering all seven districts of the city, making Shenzhen the first in China to build a city-level smartdelivery network. The granting of nighttime right of way signifies a shift from daytime last-mile delivery   to multi-scenario coordination at night, and from single-route trials to fully connected cross-district networks.
The smart vehicle industry chain covers chips, sensors, LiDAR, algorithms, complete vehicles and operations. Shenzhen hosts leading enterprises in nearly every segment, with more than 2,400 enterprises in the industrial   chain for intelligent connected vehicles, forming a "one-hour supply chain circle". This reflects the city's broader strengths in artificial intelligence: from computing power infrastructure and large AI model development to platform   ecosystems, supported across the entire chain.
In 2025, the added value of Shenzhen's strategic emerging industries reached 1.67 trillion yuan, accounting for 43% of GDP. Among them, the core industries of AI and robotics generated revenue of nearly 270 billion yuan. The city has cultivated a "wild   goose formation" tiered enterprise structure consisting of 143 specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprises, 744 specialized and sophisticated small and medium-sized enterprises, over 10 AI unicorns and 34 publicly listed robotics enterprises. Breakthroughs in AI technology have created diverse demands for robotics hardware in different scenarios, further leveraging Shenzhen's industrial chain strengths.

从无人车“夜行侠”上线，看深圳人工智能如何为经济提速

深夜10点，深圳坪山网格站内，京东物流“独狼”智能配送车完成装车，驶向龙岗片区。这是深圳首次向功能型无人车开放夜间路权，两条线路总长超50公里，串联坪山、龙岗多个物流节点，服务于站点前置夜间补货。

京东物流相关负责人介绍，同一台车早上跑末端配送，夜间跨区奔向龙岗，沿途在前置仓、秒送仓带货，兼顾仓间接驳与末端配送。过去一年，深圳无人配送从单点试点走向跨区成网，白天已开通2000多条线路，覆盖全市7区，率先建成全国首个市域级智能配送网络。夜间路权开放，标志着从日间末端配送延伸到夜间多场景协同，从单线路试跑升级为跨区网络贯通。

无人车产业链覆盖芯片、传感器、激光雷达、算法、整车、运营，深圳几乎每个环节都有头部企业，智能网联汽车产业链企业超2400家，实现“一小时配套圈”。这正是深圳人工智能产业的整体优势：从算力基础设施、大模型研发到平台生态，全链条支撑。

2025年，深圳战略性新兴产业增加值1.67万亿元，占GDP比重43%，其中人工智能和机器人核心产业营收近2700亿元。形成143家专精特新“小巨人”、744家专精特新中小企业、超10家AI独角兽和34家上市机器人企业的“雁阵式”梯队。AI技术突破使不同场景对机器人硬件需求各异，深圳产业链优势得以充分发挥。

文、图｜记者 宋王群
译｜郑书悦
英文审校｜肖凯欣