JD.com plans to introduce 3 million robots over the next five years to fully automate its nationwide logistics network. JD Logistics also outlined deploying 1 million driverless vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones, and presented its industrial Wolf robot series at an event in Beijing. Executives said the systems are designed to handle picking, sorting, transport and delivery with minimal human involvement. The company also plans to collect more than 10 million hours of operational data, expand R&D bases and build a computing cluster using 100,000 domestic chips.

SK Telecom will step up development of “AI for Everyone” by working with specialist companies and institutions across eight sectors including finance, education, healthcare, small businesses and mobility. The company said it held the consortium’s launch event on Sept. 9 at its T Tower in central Seoul. The project aims to build an end-to-end execution agent that analyses user requests and situations, connects suitable AI models and specialist services, and carries out follow-up work.