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China gave humanoid robots and embodied AI their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit

MIIT announcement 2025 number 44, written 25 December 2025 and published 31 December 2025, establishes the Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee, numbered MIIT/TC8. Its remit covers basic and common technologies, key technologies, components, whole machines and systems, applications and safety. The first committee has 76 members, and its secretariat sits at the Chinese Institute of Electronics.

The verdict

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Key facts

What the sources say

Record ID
PAG-2026-0034
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Jurisdiction
China
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  • The announcement is 中华人民共和国工业和信息化部公告（2025年第44号）, written 25 December 2025 and published 31 December 2025.
  • The committee is numbered MIIT/TC8 and is responsible for formulating and revising industry standards for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence, safety included.
  • The first committee is composed of 76 members and its secretariat is carried by the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
  • This is an industry standards committee under the ministry; the national GB projects on humanoid robots run through the standards administration's platform.

Dimension by dimension

3 dimensions, each one stated, silent or open

The machine, The AI inside it, 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 is named in the committee's own remit, so Chinese humanoid safety documents will come from a body that also sets the product standards.MIIT, announcement 2025 number 44 establishing MIIT/TC8, primary source, 31 December 2025.
The AI inside itStated
Embodied intelligence is inside the committee's name, which puts the model and the body under one standards roof.MIIT, announcement 2025 number 44 establishing MIIT/TC8, primary source, 31 December 2025.
The data it recordsSilent
The announcement names domains, not documents; what it requires of training recordings is not written in it.MIIT, announcement 2025 number 44 establishing MIIT/TC8, primary source, 31 December 2025.

Figures

Every number, with who measured it and when

  1. 76 members

    Members of the first MIIT humanoid robot and embodied intelligence standards committee

    MIIT, announcement 2025 number 44 establishing MIIT/TC8, primary source, as of .

What it changes

For a robot maker or a deployer

If you sell humanoids into China, this is the committee whose output will decide what a conforming machine looks like there, and it was stood up before any published humanoid safety standard existed. Track its work programme, and note that its scope pairs the AI and the machine, a pairing no other national standards body has made in one committee.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. MIIT, announcement 2025 number 44 establishing MIIT/TC8Primary · 31 December 2025

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According to the GAGE Physical AI Governance Atlas (as of 16 September 2026), china gave humanoid robots and embodied ai their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). China gave humanoid robots and embodied AI their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit. Physical AI Governance Atlas. Retrieved 16 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0034-cn-miit-tc8-standards-committee
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"China gave humanoid robots and embodied AI their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit." 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-2026-0034-cn-miit-tc8-standards-committee.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "China gave humanoid robots and embodied AI their own standards committee, with safety written into its remit." Physical AI Governance Atlas. Last modified 16 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/physical-ai-governance-atlas/records/PAG-2026-0034-cn-miit-tc8-standards-committee.
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