ISO is drafting a humanoid robot datasets standard, ISO/CD 26264-1, at committee draft stage
ISO/CD 26264-1, Humanoid robot datasets, part 1: general requirements, is under development in ISO technical committee 299 at stage 30.60, close of comment period, as read on the ISO catalog on 13 September 2026. Its abstract covers a dataset life cycle from planning to decommissioning, with quality, security and privacy requirements, for training, validation and test datasets of machine learning models in humanoid robots of any locomotion. A Beijing portal reports the new work item passed with 88 percent.
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- ISO catalog entry 93011: status under development, stage 30.60 close of comment period, edition 1, technical committee ISO/TC 299.
- Abstract: a humanoid robot dataset life cycle framework from planning to decommissioning, with cross cutting quality, security and privacy requirements, for industrial, service and medical domains and any locomotion.
- A Beijing science and technology portal, reposting a WeChat account, reports the proposal was led by the Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machinery Industry and passed the new work item vote with 88 percent in April 2026; that report is secondary.
- The same institute leads China's national standard plan for humanoid robot datasets part 1.
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- 88 percent
New work item approval vote, per the Beijing portal
Beijing science and technology portal, on the ISO new work item, secondary source, as of .
What it changes
For a robot maker collecting or buying hours
This is the first international standard the ledger found whose object is the training data of a humanoid robot rather than the robot. A committee draft can change, but the life cycle frame and the quality, security and privacy split are visible now, and the drafting is led from China. A maker who wants the definitions to fit its data should be in TC 299 through a national body before the enquiry stage.
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- ISO catalog, ISO/CD 26264-1 Humanoid robot datasets, part 1: general requirementsPrimary · 13 September 2026
- Beijing science and technology portal, on the ISO new work itemSecondary · 28 April 2026
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- According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), iso is drafting a humanoid robot datasets standard, iso/cd 26264-1, at committee draft stage.
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- GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). ISO is drafting a humanoid robot datasets standard, ISO/CD 26264-1, at committee draft stage. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0021-iso-26264-1-humanoid-robot-datasets-committee-draft
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