JD.com robot data collection programme (Suqian)

China centre, HQ China. A dedicated data collection neighbourhood pays residents to film household chores; elderly-care and kiwifruit-farm workers wear head cameras.

Data it collects

Workers in

China

Known buyers

Scale

• Goal: 10M+ hours of human real-scene video in two years; 100,000 staff + up to 500,000 external workers (2026-05-21)
• EgoLive dataset applied for by institutions in 8+ countries (2026-09-09)
• target of 10 million hours of robotics training data over two years (2026-06-03)
• plans to bring 100,000 employees and 500,000 external workers into data collection (2026-06-03)

Pay

• Rest of World: a Shandong stay-at-home mother films chores six hours a day at 20 yuan ($3) per hour (employer not named).
• $2.44 to $2.84/h Suqian community home collector (6 h/day) nbd.com.cn ↗ Secondary

Events

• 2026-09-10 National Data Administration holds embodied-AI symposium sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-06-03 JD.com and Suqian government plan 10 million hours of robot data restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-05-20 JD.com opens China's first embodied-AI data collection community in Suqian nbd.com.cn ↗ Secondary

Sources

• JD.com, which operates an Amazon-style logistics network, said it plans to eventually bring 100,000 employees and 500,000 external workers to join its data collection operations.restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-06-03
• JD.com, for example, is working with the local government in the city of Suqian, the hometown of founder Richard Liu, to generate 10 million hours of robotics training data over the next two years.restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-06-03
• In a dedicated 'data collection neighborhood,' residents get paid by filming themselves doing household chores.restofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-06-03
• Gao Bo, a stay-at-home mom in her 50s, films herself doing chores for six hours a day, at 20 yuan ($3) per hourrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-06-03
• 5月20日，京东宣布全国首个具身智能数据采集社区在宿迁运行，采集员多为社区居民，月收入3000元到3500元不等。nbd.com.cn ↗ Secondary 2026-05-21
• 将发动内部超10万名各类职业员工，以及外部最多50万各行业人员nbd.com.cn ↗ Secondary 2026-05-21
• 9月9日，京东宣布将建成全球最大的具身智能数据采集中心，两年内采集超1000万小时人类真实场景视频数据bjnews.com.cn ↗ Secondary 2026-09-09

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