Liu Qiangdong, is there another big move?

Recently, Tianyancha showed that Beijing Jingdong San Bai Liu Shi Du E-commerce Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of JD Group, has applied to register multiple "Joyrobotaxi" trademarks, with international classifications covering core areas such as transportation tools, scientific instruments, and transportation storage. The current trademark statuses are all waiting for substantive examination. This move has been widely interpreted by the industry as a signal that JD is officially entering the autonomous driving taxi race. Why choose autonomous driving taxis? In fact, autonomous driving aligns with JD's technological reserves and synergizes with its business. For example, the autonomous driving technology accumulated by JD in the logistics field can be reused in the taxi scene, including path planning algorithms in unmanned warehousing systems, multi-sensor fusion technology, and real-time scheduling capabilities of delivery robots, all of which are highly compatible with the core requirements of autonomous driving taxis.