JD.com suddenly announced a news that a big storm is coming!
Just now, Liu Qiangdong suddenly threw out a super nuclear bomb:
JD’s intelligent delivery robot is officially launched. This is the world’s first full-scenario normalized delivery operation!
This morning in Beijing's Haidian District, more than 20 JD delivery robots were ready to go. As the dispatching platform issued a command, the first batch of delivery robots carrying 618 orders were automatically dispatched.
These delivery robots can identify and avoid obstacles, recognize red lights, and can also drive automatically, plan routes, change lanes automatically, identify parking spaces, and park autonomously...
When the delivery robot is about to reach the destination, the backend system will send the pickup information to the user. "I am JD's intelligent delivery robot. I have successfully arrived downstairs at your building. Please use the pickup code to pick up the goods."
Consumers can freely choose to pick up their goods by facial recognition, entering a pickup verification code, or clicking on a mobile app link, which is very convenient.
Speaking of unmanned delivery vehicles, it is just a small step in JD.com's logistics revolution. JD.com's ground vehicles are intelligent, and the ones flying in the sky are also unmanned!
After JD.com’s 618 promotion created a new high of 160 billion yuan, Liu Qiangdong just announced: What made him happiest about this year’s 618 was that JD.com’s first heavy-duty drone officially rolled off the production line!
This drone has a target payload of 1-5 tons! The flight distance exceeds 1,000 kilometers! 100% independent intellectual property rights!
What’s even more impressive is the super-heavy UAV project that JD.com has just officially launched. The target payload of this super-heavy UAV is 40-60 tons, and the flight distance is over 6,000 kilometers!
Yes, you read it right. This is the super-heavy drone that JD.com wants to make. Its comprehensive indicators even exceed those of the Y-20 and Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation. Isn’t it scary?
This aircraft can function as a military aircraft in wartime, including carrying missiles!
Why use drones to deliver goods? Because drones are the best means of delivery. They can fly in a straight line without being affected by the terrain, and they don’t have to go around in circles like cars.
Now, Liu Qiangdong has obtained the approval document for drone airspace. In other words, drone delivery is no longer a fantasy, but can be done right away!
Now, JD.com's unmanned "machines, vehicles, warehouses, and delivery stations" have achieved seamless connection. In other words, when consumers shop on JD.com, the entire process from ordering to delivery has been realized unmanned.
For example, JD.com's unmanned warehouse can process more than 200,000 orders per day, while traditional warehouses can only process 30,000 to 40,000 orders per day. In other words, unmanned warehouses are 4 to 5 times more efficient than manual warehouses.
Without further ado, here are pictures to prove it, so you can feel what it means to be able to show off and fly.
Vertical library storage
Automatic sorting by sorting robot
Intelligent sorting through visual inspection
Transport robots automatically transport goods
Automatic packaging by packaging robot
Loading and leaving the factory
For example, JD.com drones can deliver goods to the top of unmanned smart distribution stations and automatically unload the goods. From warehousing, packaging, to sorting and loading, the entire process is 100% operated by robots, without a single picker, sorter or packer!
Previously, Liu Qiangdong also elaborated on the future layout of drones: 185 drone airports will be built in Sichuan, and after completion, they will be able to deliver to any city in China within 24 hours.
JD.com will also build 100 drone airports in Shaanxi, not just Sichuan. Prior to this, JD.com has already built the world's first drone dispatch center to ensure the normalization of drone operations.
JD.com drone dispatch display
What's more, Liu Qiangdong also cooperated with the Xi'an Aerospace Base and invested 20.5 billion to build global intelligent logistics.
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Some time ago, Liu Qiangdong announced a big thing: in the future, the number of employees in JD.com will be halved, and they only need to work 2-3 hours a day. It will fully realize the "unmanned company" and use AI technology to subvert traditional management and service methods.
At the World Retail Conference in Spain, Liu Qiangdong said a lot, but the core of his speech was just three sentences:
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In the future, JD.com will be 100% unmanned and will be an automated company.
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Making full use of AI technology can reduce people’s working hours, and in the future, people will only need to work two or three hours a day;
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In ten years, JD.com's employees will be reduced from the current 160,000 to 80,000.
These three things may seem like technological innovations, but they represent personnel changes at JD.com. After the implementation of unmanned operations, JD.com aims to reduce its workforce by 50% , which means that a large number of frontline employees will face unemployment. Those with average contributions, low value, and high replaceability will undoubtedly be eliminated.
At the same time, in order to better adapt to changes, JD.com will definitely recruit talents who are more knowledgeable about technology, artificial intelligence, and the future.
The cruelty of the future lies in:
You may have to compete with robots for jobs
JD.com has 160,000 employees, and the company pays 6 billion yuan in insurance and provident fund for them every year . On top of that, it pays even more in taxes .
In comparison, robots do not need to eat, drink, or rest, and do not have to pay various fees. Their cost-effectiveness is far superior to that of humans who have to pay five insurances and one fund for eating, drinking, defecating, and urinating.
In this way: If JD.com really achieves 100% implementation of AI and robot operations, the total number of JD.com employees may not only be reduced by 50%, but may even only leave 10% of the employees!
Friends who have been engaged in repetitive, monotonous, and highly replaceable work for a long time, you should be careful. In the future, you will not only be competing with excellent people, but also with robots that can learn automatically without sleeping .
Coincidentally, Deutsche Bank also announced that by 2020 they will digitize and automate 80% of the bank's work, and will eventually lay off 9,600 employees.
Stanford professor Kaplan has done a statistics, of the 720 registered occupations in the United States, 47% will be replaced by artificial intelligence. In countries where low-end technology and manual labor are the main jobs, this proportion may exceed 70%.
Citigroup predicts that European and American banks will cut 30% of their employees between 2015 and 2025, with the maximum number reaching 1.7 million. AI can complete 360,000 hours of human work in just a few seconds. All humans are lazy in front of AI.
Musk said that in the next 20 years, 12% to 15% of the world's workforce will be unemployed due to artificial intelligence.
Don't look down on the job of a bank teller, the salary is not high. However, what many people don't know is that there are many people who are willing to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan to smooth relations and use backdoors to get such a position.
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You will find that all stable jobs have one characteristic in common: the lack of high-intensity competition . The other side of that is that the market will never give you competitive wages, and your salary is not linked to your ability .
But 20 years later, this stability was finally broken!
Liu Qiangdong also said: Although the company will achieve the goal of becoming a "unmanned company" in the future, which will cause a large number of employees to be replaced by artificial intelligence, this does not mean that all employees will leave. It's just that their positions will become fewer and fewer, and their roles will change again.
Indeed, excellent talents are always scarce.
The only one who won't betray you
It's your cognition and ability
Of course, artificial intelligence may cause some industries to disappear forever, but it is a great progress in human civilization. It liberates human creativity, but if you don't change, you will be eliminated by society and lose your job.
True stability does not come from charity from the outside world, nor from the protection of the system, but from oneself. Only when you take your destiny into your own hands can you achieve stability.
Any industry and any profession, like people, will have its own cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death.
The real stability is that you prepare for the storm before it happens, seize the opportunity to learn, and grow wildly , rather than being unaware of the impending collapse of the building, and being satisfied with superiority and comfort zone in your best years.
In this era, your job will betray you, your industry will betray you, your profession will betray you. The only thing that cannot betray you is your cognition and your ability!
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