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China has over 70 embodied AI training grounds in use, per a CAICT report the ledger could only reach through state media

A research report released on 18 August 2026 by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology with the Shanghai humanoid robot center counted more than 70 embodied AI training grounds built and in use as at the end of June 2026, with forty odd more under construction or planned, across more than half of provincial regions in three clusters. The ledger reached the report only through CCTV and Xinhua reproductions.

The verdict

Reported, primary not reached

A reliable secondary source carries the figure or the program, and the primary document could not be reached. Printed with this label, never as verified.

Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
EAD-2026-0003
Kind
Data supply
Jurisdiction
China
Last verified
Added
  • CCTV, reproduced on a government portal: over 70 training grounds built and in use nationwide, and forty odd under construction or planned. The Xinhua summary carried by IT Home gives the second figure as 46.
  • The three clusters are the Yangtze River Delta, the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region, and the Pearl River Delta.
  • The 86 percent figure is the share of grounds that include industrial manufacturing scenes, not the share aimed only at manufacturing.
  • The report PDF is not on the academy's own report listings, so every figure here rests on a state broadcaster's reproduction and is labeled that way.

Figures

Every number, with who measured it and when

  1. 70 training grounds

    Training grounds built and in use, at least

    CCTV report reproduced on the Digital China government portal, secondary source, as of .

  2. 46 training grounds

    Under construction or planned, per the Xinhua summary; CCTV said forty odd

    Xinhua summary carried by IT Home, secondary source, as of .

  3. 86 percent

    Share of grounds that include industrial manufacturing scenes

    Xinhua summary carried by IT Home, secondary source, as of .

What it changes

For a robot maker collecting or buying hours

The supply of recorded hours is being built as public infrastructure in China, mostly for factory work. A maker who needs manipulation data in industrial scenes can buy or partner for it there in a way no other jurisdiction offers. A maker who needs home, hospital or outdoor data will find the same report says most grounds are not built for that.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. CCTV report reproduced on the Digital China government portalSecondary · 19 August 2026
  2. Xinhua summary carried by IT HomeSecondary · 20 August 2026
  3. TechNode, report on the training ground countSecondary · 21 August 2026

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According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), china has over 70 embodied ai training grounds in use, per a caict report the ledger could only reach through state media.
APA
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). China has over 70 embodied AI training grounds in use, per a CAICT report the ledger could only reach through state media. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0003-china-embodied-ai-training-grounds-count
MLA
"China has over 70 embodied AI training grounds in use, per a CAICT report the ledger could only reach through state media." Embodied AI Data Ledger, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 13 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0003-china-embodied-ai-training-grounds-count.
Chicago
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "China has over 70 embodied AI training grounds in use, per a CAICT report the ledger could only reach through state media." Embodied AI Data Ledger. Last modified 13 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0003-china-embodied-ai-training-grounds-count.
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