JD.com will establish the world's largest embodied data collection center to drive a trillion-dollar robotics industry ecosystem

Originally from: Legal Daily

Currently, embodied intelligence is accelerating toward industrialization, but the industry still faces severe challenges: the “small brain” capabilities of robot motion control are continuously improving, but the decision-making “big brain”—embodied large models—are undertrained due to a lack of real-world scene data, making it difficult to deepen technological implementation in industry.

To promote healthy and rapid industry development, JD.com leverages its core advantages in the super supply chain and real-world business scenarios across retail, logistics, healthcare, industrial, food delivery, and domestic services. It will establish the world’s largest and most comprehensive embodied intelligence data collection center, accumulating over 10 million hours of high-quality data within two years, helping the embodied intelligence industry transition from algorithm simulation to a new stage driven by real data.

As a comprehensive leader in artificial intelligence technology, the embodied intelligence industry is becoming a trillion-dollar blue ocean market, with data being an indispensable “fuel” for embodied intelligence. JD.com has built an industry-leading robot data collection center, creating a full-process data pipeline of “collection—annotation—training—validation,” covering five core scenarios: logistics warehousing, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, home services, and urban operation and maintenance, recording multi-dimensional data such as visual, tactile, and spatial trajectories.

Additionally, JD.com leverages over 20 years of accumulated scene resources to mobilize tens of thousands of people for data collection—including over 100,000 internal employees of various professions and up to 500,000 external industry personnel. In Suqian alone, more than 100,000 citizens will be engaged, covering over a hundred detailed scenarios from homes, offices, factories, logistics, stores, restaurants, medical facilities, to sanitation, spanning all aspects of human activity. This will be the largest data collection campaign in human history. All data collection will be conducted strictly in accordance with laws and regulations.

Through these initiatives, JD.com aims to accumulate 5 million hours of real-world scene video data within one year and surpass 10 million hours in two years, while also collecting 1 million hours of robot body data, becoming the world’s largest embodied intelligence data company, and addressing the industry’s “data shortage” from the source. By accelerating the co-evolution of the “big brain” and “small brain,” JD.com will help embodied models not only learn to “see” and “move” but also to “understand” the real world.