JD.com Founder Richard Liu Warns 700,000 Delivery Workers Will Be Replaced by Robots
Founder and chair of JD.com Richard Liu warned 700,000 delivery workers will be replaced by robots "sooner or later," Joe Leahy of The Financial Times reports. Liu said the company signed contracts with 120 school to retrain its courier for other work, such as repairing and maintaining robots. "In the future, when robots are delivering parcels, sooner or later, there will be a day when couriers are basically no longer needed," Liu told the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO forum in Beijing, according to the Times. "It will definitely be robots delivering parcels. But I really do not want our 700,000 brothers to go without meals, without jobs."
