Chinese Internet Giants Accelerate Into the Physical World as Meituan, JD.com, ByteDance and Baidu Build Robotics, Smart Delivery and Embodied AI Empires

China’s major internet companies are moving from digital services into robotics, autonomous vehicles, and embodied AI.

Meituan, JD.com, ByteDance, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are building platforms for delivery, warehouse automation, mobility, and industrial use.

The push includes delivery robots, drones, robotaxis, and integrated hardware-software systems such as Apollo, Cainiao, DAMO, and Robotics X.

This shift could reshape logistics, retail, transportation, and manufacturing, while giving China a new edge in AI-enabled physical automation.