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Open question: are a training ground's recordings important data under Chinese law? No catalog names robot data

Chinese law sends important data abroad only through a state security assessment, and defines it by field, group, region, precision and scale. No catalog the ledger found names robot training recordings. Beijing's 2025 free trade zone negative list covers nine sectors including artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, with 67 scenarios and 612 data fields, and none is robotics. Whether hours of factory footage are important data is unanswered.

The verdict

Open question

No settled answer exists. The ledger poses the question, links the live debate, and does not answer it.

Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
EAD-2026-0012
Kind
Open question
Jurisdiction
China
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  • The State Council's 2025 regulations define important data at article 62 by field, group, region, precision and scale, and leave the naming to catalogs under article 29.
  • Beijing's 2025 negative list, per the municipal government, spans nine sectors, 67 business scenarios and 612 data fields, and adds autonomous driving; robotics is not a named sector.
  • A recording of a factory floor could be argued into important data by region and precision, or out of it by the absence of any catalog entry. Nobody with authority has said which.

Figures

Every number, with who measured it and when

  1. 612 data fields

    Data fields on Beijing's 2025 free trade zone negative list

    Beijing Municipal Government, on the 2025 free trade zone data negative list, primary source, as of .

  2. 9 sectors

    Sectors on that list

    Beijing Municipal Government, on the 2025 free trade zone data negative list, primary source, as of .

What it changes

For a robot maker collecting or buying hours

Until a catalog speaks, a maker exporting Chinese training data is choosing between two readings with no authority behind either. The conservative road is to treat precise, large scale recordings of industrial sites as if a catalog might name them, and to keep the outbound file to what a standard contract clearly covers.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. State Council, Network Data Security Management Regulations, Order 790Primary · 24 September 2024
  2. Beijing Municipal Government, on the 2025 free trade zone data negative listPrimary · 25 May 2026
  3. Cyberspace Administration of China, Provisions on Promoting and Regulating Cross Border Data FlowsPrimary · 22 March 2024

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According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), open question: are a training ground's recordings important data under chinese law? no catalog names robot data.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). Open question: are a training ground's recordings important data under Chinese law? No catalog names robot data. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0012-are-robot-training-recordings-important-data-in-china
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"Open question: are a training ground's recordings important data under Chinese law? No catalog names robot data." 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-2026-0012-are-robot-training-recordings-important-data-in-china.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "Open question: are a training ground's recordings important data under Chinese law? No catalog names robot data." Embodied AI Data Ledger. Last modified 13 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0012-are-robot-training-recordings-important-data-in-china.
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