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China has published a national guiding document on embodied AI data quality for real data, GB/Z 218.1-2026

GB/Z 218.1-2026, Artificial intelligence, embodied AI data quality specification, part 1: real data, is listed as published on the national standards platform of the State Administration for Market Regulation. It is a guiding technical document under the national information technology standards committee, registered in June 2025 with 31 drafting organizations. It is the earliest national level instrument the ledger found that governs the data itself.

The verdict

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Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
EAD-2026-0005
Kind
Data standard
Jurisdiction
China
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  • Status on the national platform: published, effective on publication. Plan number 20252047-Z-469, registered 20 June 2025, under TC28, the national information technology standardization committee.
  • A GB/Z is a guiding technical document, not a mandatory standard; it recommends, it does not bind.
  • Thirty one drafting organizations are listed on the platform entry. The publication date field is not shown on the page.

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  1. 31 organizations

    Drafting organizations listed on the platform entry

    National standards platform, State Administration for Market Regulation, entry for GB/Z 218.1-2026, primary source, as of .

What it changes

For a robot maker collecting or buying hours

A buyer of Chinese real robot data now has a national reference for what quality means: a document to write into a contract and to test a delivered dataset against. It is guidance, so a supplier can decline it, but a supplier who meets it has something to point at that no other jurisdiction offers yet.

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  1. National standards platform, State Administration for Market Regulation, entry for GB/Z 218.1-2026Primary · 13 September 2026

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According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), china has published a national guiding document on embodied ai data quality for real data, gb/z 218.1-2026.
APA
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). China has published a national guiding document on embodied AI data quality for real data, GB/Z 218.1-2026. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0005-china-gbz-218-1-embodied-ai-data-quality-real-data
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"China has published a national guiding document on embodied AI data quality for real data, GB/Z 218.1-2026." 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-2026-0005-china-gbz-218-1-embodied-ai-data-quality-real-data.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "China has published a national guiding document on embodied AI data quality for real data, GB/Z 218.1-2026." Embodied AI Data Ledger. Last modified 13 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0005-china-gbz-218-1-embodied-ai-data-quality-real-data.
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