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时间：2026-08-26
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新三国演义
印度初创公司 Airbound 开发“火箭形态”配送无人机，还要和卡车比货运成本_我的网站
一 | 8 月 25 日消息，据外媒 TechCrunch 今天（25 日）报道，印度自主飞行无人机初创公司 Airbound 完成了 3,700 万美元（注：现汇率约合 2.49 亿元人民币）A 轮融资，希望最终把无人机空运货物的成本降到与公路卡车运输相当的水平。
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The prize is awarded every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to a living author (since 1956) and illustrator (since 1966). The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize for children's literature," honoring lifelong achievements that have made a lasting and important contribution to children's literature.
During the award ceremony, IBBY President Basarat Kazim praised Cai for the elegant, unrushed style in her works, which encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet corners, according to the Guangming Daily.
Kazim said Cai's works have an unhurried elegance that encourages children to look closely and discover beauty in quiet, everyday moment.
"This year's winner, Cai Gao, is extremely special. She is as beautiful a person as the drawings she does," Kazim said.
Following author Cao Wenxuan's win of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards as a writer of children's literature in 2016, Cai's achievement means that Chinese creators have now won both the author and illustrator categories, a "double victory."
In her acceptance speech, Cai said, "The future of the world lies in children. There is no greater happiness than creating for them." She also noted that children's books are bridges, connecting cultures and hearts around the world.
Reflecting on her childhood and her years teaching in rural villages, Cai recalled that after six years working as a rural primary school teacher in the 1980s, she joined a publishing house, where she spent two decades as a children's book editor. "This job taught me the most important lesson: to see life through the eyes of a child, and to use art as a way of expressing my feelings about life," she noted.
"I feel the profound weight of this gift from life. I'm filled with mixed emotions. I'm moved and grateful for everything I've been through. Every experience has shaped me into the person I am today," she added.
Alongside her editing career, Cai kept creating original picture books. Her well-known book Yueliang Baba is based on folk songs her grandmother would sing in her native Changsha dialect. Works like Huocheng 1938 (lit: Fire City 1938) were inspired by memories of wartime in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province. The rural scenery and farming scenes in The Land of the Peach Blossom, a book which is also listed as textbooks for primary school students in Japan, all reflect her lifelong connection to the Hunan countryside and many years quietly editing books at her desk, according to the China News Service.
Though her illustrations reflect the atmosphere of the times, Cai told the Global Times that her stories' true intentions go beyond the visual; she hopes her work can teach children that "fearlessness and love are ways to overcome hardship."
Books such as Bao'er, Hua Mulan, The Land of the Peach Blossom, and The Hundred Birds' Feather Robe have established Cai as an illustrator who skillfully interprets traditional Chinese culture. She constantly revisits the classics, striving to connect ancient stories to contemporary social and cultural themes.
Before winning the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2026, Cai became, in 1993, the first Chinese illustrator to win the Golden Apple Award, one of the world's top international honors for children's illustration. Cai has always emphasized that these awards do not belong to her alone.
"When I learned that I had won the award, my first thought was of all the creators of my generation. This award is not just mine, it belongs to all of us," she said.
Cai's victory fills a six-decade gap for Chinese illustrators in the award's history, Zhang Peng, an associate professor at Nanjing Normal University and also president of the university's publishing house, told the Global Times. It also shows that original picture books, rooted in Chinese tradition and told with Eastern aesthetics, are fully capable of earning global recognition, Zhang added.
Zhang noted that for a long time, the Chinese children's book market was dominated by foreign imports, and local authors often struggled with the anxiety of imitating Western works. At 80, Cai has set a striking example for the industry with her use of ink-and-wash folk art, proving that the more grounded in national culture a work is, the wider its global reach. This has inspired greater confidence among local creators and encourages more people to focus on traditional Chinese culture, while paving the way for Chinese children's books to go global.
"Cai's achievement is no accident. It marks the moment when Chinese children's books truly found their own voice on the world stage," Zhang said.
。Airbound 不到一年前刚刚获得 865 万美元（现汇率约合 5,829 万元人民币）种子轮融资，本轮完成后，这家成立 3 年的公司累计融资已接近 5,000 万美元（现汇率约合 3.37 亿元人民币）。Airbound 等初创公司认为，相比公路车辆，无人机运送部分货物速度更快、成本更低。无人机配送已经出现了一些成功案例，但无论运输规模还是适用范围，目前都远不能与卡车运输相比。Airbound 希望从飞行器本身入手缩小差距，让无人机拥有与地面运输竞争的成本优势。传统飞行器很大一部分能源都消耗在承载自身重量上，而不是运输货物，因此空运成本居高不下，运输小批量货物时尤其明显。Airbound 创始人兼 CEO 纳曼 · 普什普解释，公司希望制造自身重量低于所载货物重量的垂直飞行无人机，以解决这一问题。
三 | 目前其打造的 TRT 无人机重约 1.5kg，可以运载约 1kg 货物，正在开发的下一代产品预计重约 3kg，载重量最高可达约 5kg。Airbound 采用类似火箭的尾座式设计，以直立姿态垂直起飞，升空后转为水平飞行，降落时再恢复直立姿态。普什普表示，公司未来即使制造更大的无人机，也会继续保留垂直起降能力，避免对跑道产生依赖。
四 | “我们的目标是，让所有运输最终都能做到与卡车运输成本相当。”Airbound 成立于 2023 年，已经在印度南部的班加罗尔和贡土尔完成超过 1.3 万次自主飞行。
五 | 公司下一步的目标充满野心，计划建立一个连接安得拉邦 3 座城市的无人机配送网络，并已经与当地政府签署协议，最终实现每天 1 万次飞行，为零售、电商和医疗领域运送货物。
六 | “我们想扮演的是波音的角色，也就是提供各地航空公司都依赖的飞机，而不是自己成为航空公司。”然而，监管限制让 Airbound 目前很难把大量飞行转化为真正的商业收入。公司已经拥有超过 150 名员工，整体上却仍处于基本没有营收的阶段。
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