DEEP Robotics' Robot Dog Joins JD Logistics as “Cyber Tea Farmer” to Bridge First Kilometer of Spring Tea Harvest

HANGZHOU, China, April 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spring tea season is here, and in Zhejiang's West Lake Longjing production area—one of China's most prized tea regions—DEEP Robotics has sent its robot dogs to work. The job? Hauling freshly picked tea leaves down the mountain so farmers don't have to. Together with JD Logistics, the quadruped robotics solutions are trying to crack a problem that's dogged premium tea production forever: getting delicate pre-Ming leaves off steep, narrow mountain paths and into the processing workshops fast enough. You've got about an hour before the leaves start losing what makes them special.