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A founder says 700,000 couriers will be replaced by robots

development2026-06-22

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JD.com's founder warned its 700,000 couriers will be replaced by robots sooner or later, signing up 120 schools to retrain them to service their replacements, while NVIDIA unveiled what it bills as the first full-stack safety system for physical AI.

Reported metric: 700,000 couriers

Reporting date: 2026-06-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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A founder says 700,000 couriers will be replaced by robots
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Reporting date: 2026-06-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-22-seven-hundred-thousand-couriers-to-be-replaced
Claim: JD.com's founder warned its 700,000 couriers will be replaced by robots sooner or later, signing up 120 schools to retrain them to service their replacements, while NVIDIA unveiled what it bills as the first full-stack safety system for physical AI.
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- Welcome to June 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-22-2026
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