JD Logistics plans to procure 3 million robots over the next five years as it moves to automate its nationwide logistics network. It also plans to add 1 million unstaffed vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones as part of its push toward a fully automated supply chain.
The company unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series in Beijing on Wednesday. The robots are designed to handle repetitive and labour-intensive work, including picking, sorting, transporting and delivering goods with limited human intervention. The lineup includes machines that can operate in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius.
JD founder Liu Qiangdong had earlier said the company would retrain frontline workers under its Nirvana Plan as automation expands. Workers could move into technical roles such as robot servicing and maintenance.
Beyond hardware, JD also plans to use its warehouses, stores and pharmacies to collect more than 10 million hours of real-world operational data to train embodied AI models.
