Embodied intelligence is rapidly advancing toward industrialization, yet the sector faces significant challenges. While robotic motion control capabilities continue to improve, the decision-making core—embodied large models—remains underdeveloped due to insufficient training data from real-world scenarios, hindering deep industry integration. To accelerate healthy sector growth, JD.com (09618) will leverage its core supply chain advantages and extensive operational environments—including retail, logistics, healthcare, industrial operations, food delivery, and domestic services—to establish the world's largest and most comprehensive embodied intelligence data collection center. Within two years, the center aims to accumulate over 10 million hours of high-quality data, advancing the industry from algorithmic simulation to real data-driven development.
As a convergence of artificial intelligence technologies, embodied intelligence represents a trillion-dollar blue ocean market, with data serving as indispensable fuel. JD.com has already built an industry-leading robotic data collection facility, implementing a full-cycle data pipeline covering acquisition, annotation, training, and validation across five core scenarios: logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, home services, and urban operations. The system captures multi-dimensional data including visual, tactile, and spatial trajectory information.
Furthermore, JD.com will mobilize hundreds of thousands of participants—including over 100,000 internal employees across various roles and up to 500,000 external contributors from diverse industries—for data collection. In Suqian alone, more than 100,000 residents will participate across over 100 subdivided scenarios spanning households, offices, factories, logistics centers, retail stores, restaurants, medical facilities, and sanitation services, covering virtually all aspects of human activity. This initiative represents the largest-scale data collection effort in human history.
All data collection will strictly comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Through these measures, JD.com plans to accumulate 5 million hours of real-world human scenario video data within one year, exceeding 10 million hours within two years, while simultaneously collecting 1 million hours of robotic operational data. This will establish JD.com as the world's largest embodied intelligence data company, addressing the industry's data scarcity challenge at its source.
By accelerating the coordinated evolution of cognitive and motor control systems, JD.com will enable embodied models to not only perceive and move but also develop genuine understanding of the real world.
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