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No United States federal standard or rule governs robot training data; one NIST project names datasets as a deliverable

The ledger searched the White House AI Action Plan of July 2025, NIST's AI Risk Management Framework and robotics pages, the National Science Foundation's robotics programs, DARPA's 2026 physical intelligence request and the Congressional record for a federal instrument on robot training data. None exists. NIST's Physical AI and Data Generation for Robotics project lists datasets among its deliverables and has released one of manufacturing objects; that is the whole federal footprint.

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: the AI Action Plan PDF at whitehouse.gov, text extracted; nist.gov, the AI RMF page and the Physical AI and Data Generation for Robotics project page updated 24 April 2026; nsf.gov, the National Robotics Initiative 3.0 sunset letter NSF 22-081 and the Foundational Research in Robotics page; darpa.mil, the 29 April 2026 rethinking robotics request for information; govinfo.gov for bills naming humanoid robots; whitehouse.gov for any 2026 executive action on robotics.

Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
EAD-2026-0028
Kind
Data standard
Jurisdiction
United States
Last verified
Added
  • NIST project page, updated 24 April 2026: develop metrics, test methods, standards, software, prototypes and datasets to promote the adoption of AI enhanced robotics; disseminated a dataset of manufacturing objects and assemblies.
  • The AI Action Plan names robotics among physical world innovations and asks for a convening on robotics and drone supply chains; its dataset language is about scientific datasets, not robot training data.
  • NSF sunset the National Robotics Initiative 3.0 in May 2022; the successor program page carries no dataset language. DARPA's April 2026 request on physical intelligence has none either.
  • The NIST AI Risk Management Framework page does not mention robotics, embodied or physical AI.

What it changes

For a robot maker collecting or buying hours

In the United States the data side of embodied AI is unregulated at the federal level and unfunded as public infrastructure. A maker there answers to state biometric law for the people in the footage, to export controls that do not name the data, and to contract for everything else. The nearest thing to a national data effort is a manufacturing institute's data call, on this ledger as a separate record.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. NIST, Physical AI and Data Generation for RoboticsPrimary · 24 April 2026
  2. The White House, America's AI Action PlanPrimary · 23 July 2025
  3. National Science Foundation, sunset of the National Robotics Initiative 3.0, NSF 22-081Primary · 3 May 2022
  4. DARPA, rethinking robotics with physical intelligencePrimary · 29 April 2026

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According to the GAGE Embodied AI Data Ledger (as of 13 September 2026), no united states federal standard or rule governs robot training data; one nist project names datasets as a deliverable.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). No United States federal standard or rule governs robot training data; one NIST project names datasets as a deliverable. Embodied AI Data Ledger. Retrieved 13 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0028-no-us-federal-standard-or-rule-on-robot-training-data
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"No United States federal standard or rule governs robot training data; one NIST project names datasets as a deliverable." 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-2026-0028-no-us-federal-standard-or-rule-on-robot-training-data.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "No United States federal standard or rule governs robot training data; one NIST project names datasets as a deliverable." Embodied AI Data Ledger. Last modified 13 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/embodied-ai-data-ledger/records/EAD-2026-0028-no-us-federal-standard-or-rule-on-robot-training-data.
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