Two national standards for humanoid robot datasets are in drafting in China, on an eighteen month cycle from June 2025
The national standards platform lists two national standard plans under the national robotics standardization committee, TC591, noticed on 12 June 2025 with an eighteen month cycle: Humanoid robot datasets, part 1: general principles, and part 2: upper limb manipulation. Drafters named include Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machinery Industry, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai humanoid robot center. Neither has been published.
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- EAD-2026-0006
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- China
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- Plan 20253226-T-604, Humanoid robot datasets, part 1: general principles. Drafters listed include the Beijing automation institute, Tsinghua, the Shenzhen AIRS institute, Galbot and the Shanghai AI research institute.
- Plan 20253221-T-604, Humanoid robot datasets, part 2: upper limb manipulation. Lead drafter listed as Humanoid Robots (Shanghai) Co.
- Both are national standard plans in research status, under TC591, not under the humanoid robot and embodied AI committee that MIIT set up in December 2025.
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- 18 months
Drafting cycle stated in the plan notice
National standards platform, plan 20253226-T-604, Humanoid robot datasets part 1, primary source, as of .
What it changes
For a robot maker collecting or buying hours
The shape of a Chinese humanoid dataset standard is being decided now, by named institutes and companies, and the general principles part will define the vocabulary the rest inherits. A maker who sells into China or buys data from it should read the drafts when they circulate for comment. The same institute leads the ISO work item on the same subject, so the two are likely to rhyme.
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- National standards platform, plan 20253226-T-604, Humanoid robot datasets part 1Primary · 13 September 2026
- National standards platform, plan 20253221-T-604, Humanoid robot datasets part 2Primary · 13 September 2026
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- According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), two national standards for humanoid robot datasets are in drafting in china, on an eighteen month cycle from june 2025.
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- GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). Two national standards for humanoid robot datasets are in drafting in China, on an eighteen month cycle from June 2025. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0006-china-humanoid-robot-dataset-national-standard-plans
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- "Two national standards for humanoid robot datasets are in drafting in China, on an eighteen month cycle from June 2025." 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-2026-0006-china-humanoid-robot-dataset-national-standard-plans.
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