JD.com outlines massive robotics and autonomous vehicle procurement plan for next five years

Cao Peng, Chairman of the Technology Committee at JD Group, detailed JD's strategy to integrate AI into the physical world during the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. JD is advancing the integration of AI and robotics across its entire supply chain, with a significant five-year procurement target: 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 drones. JD's embodied intelligence capabilities are already operational in over 100 distinct production and service scenarios, having logged more than 100,000 real-world operational tasks. The company is accelerating this through the 'JD Physical AI Acceleration Plan,' focusing initially on embodied intelligent robots across data, bases, manufacturing, sales, logistics, and service. JD's AI is currently deployed in over 3,000 scenarios spanning retail, logistics, health, and industry. To fuel this expansion, JD is building embodied intelligence data collection centers, aiming to gather over 10 million hours of high-quality human scene video data and more than 1 million hours of robot operational data within two years. The company leverages its extensive infrastructure, including over 3,800 warehouses and more than 200,000 offline retail pharmacies, to provide real-world environments for robot learning.