JD.com

An e-commerce and logistics giant that has invested heavily in embodied AI since 2025 while building its own data and testing grounds.

JD.com is an e-commerce and logistics group founded by Richard Liu (Liu Qiangdong) in 1998, headquartered in Beijing. It reportedly set up a group-level embodied-AI unit in March 2025, led by Hui Shen, a former SenseTime vice president; its JD Explore Academy open-sourced the dual-arm mobile-manipulation dataset JD ManiData. In 2025 it invested in AgiBot, then on July 21 led rounds in Spirit AI, LimX Dynamics, and EngineAI on the same day, followed by investments in RoboScience and PaXini Tech, spanning robot bodies, large models, touch sensing, and dexterous hands. In June 2026, an affiliated fund co-led an angel round of more than $200 million for the world-model company Wujie Dynamics. It has also connected its conversational agent JoyInside to robots, is building an embodied-data collection center, has open-sourced the human-perspective dataset EgoLive, and is turning its own malls and warehouses into robot training grounds.

ExampleOn July 21, 2025, Spirit AI announced a Pre-A+ funding round of nearly RMB 600 million, led by JD.com.

Also called

JD Group, Jingdong

Related

AgiBot · LimX Dynamics · Spirit AI · EngineAI · Meituan · Data Flywheel

Sources

证券时报：京东投资三家具身智能机器人企业 (Chinese)
钛媒体：京东，具身智能大玩家？ (Chinese)
新京报：资本疯狂投喂机器人赛道 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09