- China will inaugurate the world’s first multi-brand humanoid robot training center in Shanghai in July 2026, gathering over 100 robots from more than 12 different companies.
- The 5,000 m² facility belongs to the National and Local Innovation Center in Humanoid Robotics, located in the Zhangjiang tech zone.
- The robots will learn 45 basic skills, such as grasping, transporting, sorting objects, folding clothes, and cleaning equipment.
- Each movement is repeated up to 600 times per day under researcher supervision to collect data on precision, impact force, and performance.
- The center expects to generate approximately 50,000 data points daily, equivalent to 10 million data points per year.
- Data from various types of robots will be merged to build a shared “super brain,” helping future robots learn faster without training from scratch.
- The data-sharing system will allow robot companies to access specialized datasets for healthcare, tourism, hospitality, or industry to shorten product development cycles.
- China currently has about 3,000 robots working alongside humans at a mega-factory in Chongqing and views the robot school as the next step toward large-scale humanoid robot deployment.
📌 China is testing an unprecedented robot development model: centralized training for over 100 robots from multiple brands and turning collected data into a shared “super brain” for the entire industry. With 10 million data points annually and hundreds of thousands of practice sessions daily, the project aims to drastically reduce training costs, accelerate the commercialization of humanoid robots, and create a competitive edge for the Chinese robotics industry in the coming decade.
