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JD.com founder Richard Liu said at the APEC China CEO Forum that robots will replace the company’s 700,000 delivery workers “sooner or later”, pairing the prediction with a retraining program called Nirvana that aims to move couriers into robot maintenance and AI training roles before automation arrives.
Across delivery, medicine, construction, agriculture, and defense, robots are moving from controlled pilots into real-world operations at the same time – a convergence economist Richard Baldwin has called “Globotics”, the combined force of globalization and robotics reshaping how work gets done.
Amazon has acquired robotics startup RIVR, a developer of stair-climbing quadruped delivery robots, as the company expands its efforts to automate last-mile logistics.
Location data collected from millions of Pokémon Go players is now being used to train delivery robots, highlighting the unexpected role of consumer AR games in robotics development.
Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched ground robot delivery trials in Bristol and Milton Keynes, following Uber Eats’ recent rollout in Leeds, as UK platforms test physical AI for last-mile logistics.
