{"id":45691,"date":"2025-09-27T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:05:07","slug":"china-unveils-giant-robot-boot-camps-to-train-up-world-leading-humanoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45691\/","title":{"rendered":"China unveils giant \u2018robot boot camps\u2019 to train up world-leading humanoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is going all out to outpace the United States in the race to develop advanced humanoid robots. Its latest strategy: sending its bots to boot camp.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cities across the country are opening huge humanoid robotics training bases, which put robots through their paces in a variety of different scenarios and harvest training data to help manufacturers accelerate their product development.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The biggest of these facilities, located in Beijing\u2019s Shijingshan district, covers an area of more than 10,000 square metres (108,000 sq ft) and will generate over 6 million data points every year, the local government announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>China and the US <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3299162\/china-holds-dominant-position-humanoid-robot-ecosystem-analysts?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">are the clear front-runners<\/a> in the emerging humanoid robot industry, which aims to create robots with humanlike bodies that can replace human workers in a range of settings \u2013 from factory floors to nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The training bases are designed to address \u201cthe current data shortage\u201d that is holding back China\u2019s domestic industry, according to the local government statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Beijing centre provides 16 specific scenarios for robot training, including settings that mimic a manufacturing facility, a retail outlet, an elderly care centre and a smart home.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the past, robotics companies collected training data in isolation, resulting in inconsistent quality. The new training base will enable standardised, large-scale data generation, delivering high-quality data at lower costs, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is going all out to outpace the United States in the race to develop advanced humanoid robots.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,40283,40288,363,364,4177,607,40287,19813,40284,111,139,69,40281,40280,40282,145,5536,40286,40285],"class_list":{"0":"post-45691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-powered-devices","10":"tag-american-competitors","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-beijing","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese-government","16":"tag-humanoid-robots","17":"tag-morgan-stanley-report","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-optimus","22":"tag-shijingshan-district","23":"tag-spring-festival-gala","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-tesla","26":"tag-the-united-states","27":"tag-world-robot-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}