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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council have jointly launched the “2026 Special Initiative for Real-World Training of Humanoid Robots and Embodied AI.” The initiative aims to promote the routine deployment, engineering validation, and large-scale adoption of humanoid robots and embodied AI in actual production and daily-life environments, thereby accelerating the construction of a complete industrial chain.
The initiative sets a goal to complete preliminary application validation and routine deployment of key products—such as humanoid robots—across multiple representative scenarios by the end of 2026, transitioning them into an active “operational mode.” Furthermore, it aims to establish over 100 high-value application scenarios, further enrich the application ecosystem for embodied AI, and achieve a deployment capacity on the scale of 10,000 units.
Covering key sectors such as industry, services, and special-purpose applications, the initiative entails six key tasks: constructing real-world training spaces; establishing innovation application consortia; developing practical operational skills; strengthening real-world application validation and routine deployment; ensuring the supply of critical components; and systematizing mature operational experiences.
Regarding the construction of real-world training spaces, the initiative focuses on the demand for humanoid and quadruped robots in key scenarios across the industrial, service, and special-purpose sectors—including production and manufacturing, inspection and analysis, maintenance, warehousing and logistics, food service and retail, medical care and healthcare, workplace safety, emergency rescue, and disaster prevention and mitigation. Actual scenarios characterized by clear objectives and tasks, high standardization, and economic viability will be selected to serve as the foundation for these real-world training spaces. Furthermore, regarding the establishment of innovation application consortia, support will be provided to form these groups for each specific scenario; these consortia will be led by user organizations, companies, and manufacturers of finished robots (or providers of application services), while collaborating with supply chain entities—such as companies specializing in model algorithms and component manufacturers—as well as research institutions. (Editor: YF)