No EU or member state program funds robot training data collection as its object
The ledger searched the Apply AI Strategy, the Data Union Strategy, the euROBIN network of excellence, the Commission's robotics policy page, the EuroHPC calls and France's 2030 robotics program for a public program whose object is collecting robot training data. None was found. euROBIN shares data and software among labs; Apply AI funds robotics foundation models and adoption pipelines; France funds research that needs quality data.
The verdict
Absent
The ledger searched and found no instrument. The record says where it looked and when.
Where the ledger looked: Searched on 13 September 2026: COM(2025) 723 Apply AI Strategy; COM(2025) 835 Data Union Strategy; CORDIS entry for euROBIN, grant 101070596; the Commission robotics policy page, last updated 27 March 2026; the EuroHPC call of 28 April 2026; the French economy ministry release of 13 June 2025 on the 30 million euro robotics research program; the Robotics Institute Germany site, which refused the fetch.
Key facts
What the sources say
- Record ID
- EAD-2026-0016
- Kind
- Data supply
- Jurisdiction
- European Union
- Last verified
- Added
- euROBIN, coordinated by DLR, runs from July 2022 to December 2026 with an EU contribution of 11,499,999 euro; its stated exchange is software, data and knowledge over the EuroCore repository among its own labs.
- The Apply AI Strategy, 8 October 2025, promises a catalyst for European robotics uptake and sectoral acceleration pipelines, and facilitating data pooling among industrial actors; it funds models and adoption, not recording.
- France's 13 June 2025 release launches a 30 million euro robotics research program and says projects need access to quality data; it does not say who will record it.
- The Commission's robotics page names no robotics strategy with a date, and none appeared in the 2026 work program index the ledger checked.
Figures
Every number, with who measured it and when
- 11,499,999 euro
EU contribution to euROBIN, the closest network
CORDIS, euROBIN project entry, primary source, as of .
- 30,000,000 euro
France 2030 robotics research program
French Ministry of the Economy, robotics research program release, primary source, as of .
What it changes
For a robot maker collecting or buying hours
In Europe the hours come from companies or from nowhere. A maker planning on public data infrastructure like China's will not find it in any program the ledger could read, and the one European operator building gyms at scale is a private firm on this ledger under Germany.
Sources
What this record was verified against
- European Commission, Apply AI Strategy, COM(2025) 723Primary · 8 October 2025
- CORDIS, euROBIN project entryPrimary · 13 September 2026
- French Ministry of the Economy, robotics research program releasePrimary · 13 June 2025
- European Commission, robotics policy pagePrimary · 27 March 2026
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- In a sentence
- According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), no eu or member state program funds robot training data collection as its object.
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- GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). No EU or member state program funds robot training data collection as its object. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0016-no-eu-program-funds-robot-training-data-collection
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- "No EU or member state program funds robot training data collection as its object." 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-2026-0016-no-eu-program-funds-robot-training-data-collection.
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