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China's humanoid robot policy is a 2023 MIIT document with dated milestones and a governance line inside it

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Guiding Opinions on the Innovative Development of Humanoid Robots as document 2023 number 193, dated 20 October 2023 and published on 2 November 2023. Its own interpretation sets a 2025 milestone that includes batch production and exploring governance mechanisms, and a 2027 milestone of a safe and reliable supply chain and world advanced overall strength.

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PAG-2026-0033
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China
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  • The notice carries document number 工信部科〔2023〕193号, written 20 October 2023 and published 2 November 2023 by the MIIT science and technology department.
  • MIIT's interpretation gives the 2025 milestone as breakthroughs in brain, cerebellum and limb technologies, batch production, demonstration applications, and exploring effective governance mechanisms and means.
  • The 2027 milestone is a safe and reliable industrial and supply chain system and overall strength reaching world advanced levels.
  • The document sets five task areas; the supporting capability area names a sound industry standards system, testing and pilot verification capacity, and stronger safety governance capacity.
  • The humanoid brain is to be built on large AI models, with a cerebellum for motion control; the notice page carries the covering notice, and the interpretation carries the substance.

Dimension by dimension

4 dimensions, each one stated, silent or open

The machine, The AI inside it, Liability, The data it records. Stated means the document you can open below says it; silent means the ledger read the document and it does not.

The machineStated
Safety appears as a capacity to build, testing, pilot verification and safety governance, rather than as a requirement a maker must meet today.MIIT science and technology department, interpretation of the Guiding Opinions, primary source, 2 November 2023.
The AI inside itStated
The document directs the humanoid brain to be developed on large AI models and the cerebellum on motion control algorithm libraries, so the learned layer is the policy's centre.MIIT science and technology department, interpretation of the Guiding Opinions, primary source, 2 November 2023.
LiabilitySilent
Neither the notice nor the interpretation says who answers when a humanoid causes harm.MIIT science and technology department, interpretation of the Guiding Opinions, primary source, 2 November 2023.
The data it recordsSilent
The interpretation names no rule on the recordings a humanoid makes; the data question is left to the standards work that followed.MIIT science and technology department, interpretation of the Guiding Opinions, primary source, 2 November 2023.

What it changes

For a robot maker or a deployer

China set the direction three years before anyone else wrote a humanoid rule, and it named governance as something to be explored alongside production rather than after it. For a maker, this document is the reason Chinese standards work on humanoids is moving fast, and the reason the standards that emerge will be industrial policy instruments as much as safety documents. It binds nobody by itself.

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What this record was verified against

  1. MIIT, notice issuing the Guiding Opinions on the Innovative Development of Humanoid Robots, 工信部科〔2023〕193号Primary · 2 November 2023
  2. MIIT science and technology department, interpretation of the Guiding OpinionsPrimary · 2 November 2023

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According to the GAGE Physical AI Governance Atlas (as of 16 September 2026), china's humanoid robot policy is a 2023 miit document with dated milestones and a governance line inside it.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). China's humanoid robot policy is a 2023 MIIT document with dated milestones and a governance line inside it. Physical AI Governance Atlas. Retrieved 16 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0033-cn-miit-humanoid-guiding-opinions
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"China's humanoid robot policy is a 2023 MIIT document with dated milestones and a governance line inside it." Physical AI Governance Atlas, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 16 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0033-cn-miit-humanoid-guiding-opinions.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "China's humanoid robot policy is a 2023 MIIT document with dated milestones and a governance line inside it." Physical AI Governance Atlas. Last modified 16 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0033-cn-miit-humanoid-guiding-opinions.
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