JD Logistics plans to buy 3 million robots in five years, so the Zhilang deployment gives AGIBOT a named reference customer before its planned Hong Kong listing.
AGIBOT’s G2 Max, a wheeled robot with two humanlike arms built for heavy lifting, is now moving cartons and storage totes at the inbound end of JD Logistics’ Zhilang warehouse, Mydrivers (快科技) reported on October 26. The Shanghai robot maker rates the two arms together at 40 kg, with a peak of 50 kg and 20 kg for a single arm, and says the arms return to the same point within 0.5 mm. In warehouse runs, the robot completed more than 99% of its tasks, took 80 cartons an hour off pallets and stacked 75 an hour onto them, and worked around the clock without shift changes, Mydrivers reported.
Those operating figures come from AGIBOT. IT Home attributed them to the company’s own disclosure, and AGIBOT’s launch release, as carried by PEdaily (投资界), gives the 99% rate and the hourly carton counts as results from an unnamed "leading" e-commerce warehouse connected to a goods-to-person system, in which machines bring stored goods to workers at fixed stations. Mydrivers links the same numbers to JD’s site and describes them as measured in a warehouse setting. No report gives the length of the runs or the test conditions, and no outside party has checked them.
The JD deployment itself was announced on July 17, when the two companies unveiled the G2 Max at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. JD Logistics said then that it marked the first time a humanoid robot had entered real warehouse production, according to Jiemian. What arrived on October 26 is the full specification and AGIBOT’s statement that the robot is at work, timed to JD’s peak sales period. Neither company has said how many G2 Max units JD is running or on what commercial terms.
AGIBOT built the G2 Max for work warehouses still do by hand
The robot targets the inbound stage, where workers unload deliveries, sort them and stack goods for storage. In a July report, IT Home cited the head of JD’s Zhilang business as saying the system already cuts warehouse staff’s daily walking by 20,000 to 30,000 steps, and that the partnership aims to ease the physical strain of inbound work. Gasgoo described the G2 Max as a two-armed humanoid upper body on an omnidirectional wheeled base with a lifting mechanism, handling full-case palletizing and tote transfers between unloading and storage.
The October release fills in the rest. Each arm is force-controlled with seven degrees of freedom, the working height runs from 0.1 m to 2.5 m and horizontal reach covers 1.2 m, according to PEdaily and CNMO. AGIBOT says pallets can stand against a wall, without the roughly 1.5 m of clearance behind them that a robot would otherwise need, which suits older buildings. Hot-swappable dual batteries and automatic recharging support continuous work, and a 360-degree sensing system combines 2D and 3D lidar, ultrasonic sensors, bumper strips on the base and a physical emergency stop.
Zhilang is JD’s in-house goods-to-person storage system. Mydrivers says it uses 12 m of vertical space, stores six times as much as a conventional warehouse and triples outbound picking efficiency, with hundreds of robots working together. In July, Phoenix Tech (凤凰网科技) described shelves taller than 10 m and storage density about four times that of a traditional warehouse.
JD is one of several sites in AGIBOT’s sales pitch
The launch release names other early uses. AGIBOT says the G2 Max reached a 100% material recognition rate on a mixed-input production line at an unnamed leading maker of household chemicals and consumer goods. On the line that assembles AGIBOT’s Qiyuan T1 (启元T1) robots, it carries shoulder housings and hip assemblies from the stockpile to final assembly. Zhou Ye, head of the robot manufacturing plant at Huguang (沪光股份), said the line produces one T1 every 2.5 minutes and called the G2 Max’s pace very stable, PEdaily reported.
Yao Maoqing, AGIBOT’s co-founder, co-president and head of its embodied business, framed the launch around that kind of evidence. "Embodied intelligence is not a demo in the lab; its value must be tested on real production lines," he said, according to PEdaily and CNMO.
The G2 Max was one of four products AGIBOT showed at WAIC, where it was presented as the company’s "first heavy-payload, force-controlled embodied task robot," Humanoid Robotics Technology reported. The October release is the third in a product series AGIBOT calls AI WAVE.
Innovation Day and a prospectus are the next places to look
JD Logistics is a customer with room to scale. JD Logistics plans to buy 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles and 100,000 drones over five years, Phoenix Tech reported in July. A single robot model at one warehouse stage is a small part of that plan.
AGIBOT started a Hong Kong IPO process in July and is not yet listed, Yicai reported, and a reported new funding round could reset its IPO clock. Deployments with named partners such as JD are the kind of evidence a prospectus would have to put numbers on: units shipped, revenue and repeat orders.
The company will show the G2 Max again at AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 on October 29, according to PEdaily. A unit count for Zhilang, a price, or JD’s own throughput data from a full peak-season shift would show whether 80 cartons an hour holds outside AGIBOT’s launch materials.