JD adjusts course on automation
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What happened: On May 27, JD founder Liu Qiangdong promised his workforce that robots are not coming for their jobs.
For front-line workers that are replaced by machines, “JD will not fire a single one." Instead, JD has established 80+ "robobases" nationwide to retrain displaced blue-collar wo...