Shanghai witnessed the launch of a unique training center for robots of various shapes and sizes.
According to a report published by New Atlas, joint training of robots will contribute to collecting huge amounts of data and accelerating its integration into the fields of industry, medicine and everyday life.
The report notes that while some consider the development of robots to be a worrying future scenario, China is working to transform this industry into a unified and integrated ecosystem.
The 5,000-square-meter Machine Learning Innovation Center, located in the Changjiang High-Tech Zone, is scheduled to open in July 2026, where more than 100 humanoid robots (human-like robots) provided by dozens of the country’s leading technology companies have been “registered.”
The training program for humanoid robots includes almost no rest periods, as the "students" in the first stage are required to master 45 basic skills until they become automatic, such as grasping, lifting, moving and arranging objects, which are skills necessary for working in factories, hotels and agriculture.
The training method is similar to working in university laboratories, where a human trainer provides verbal instructions that the robot must understand and execute independently. Tasks involving grasping objects remain among the most challenging, as monitoring a single movement may require hundreds of repetitions per day.
In later stages, the robots will be trained on 10 main integrated scenarios, including cleaning buildings, arranging goods, and even folding clothes, which are among the most complex tasks in the field of artificial intelligence.
The center, which is run by the National Humanoid Robotics Innovation Foundation, aims not only to adapt models to reality, but also to build a huge database of practical data.
The robots will produce about 50,000 data points per day, or approximately 10 million training units per year, which will be compiled to develop a global digital model known as the "super brain" of robots.
"We established this center to make data exchange and collective use possible, giving a strong boost to the entire industry," said Xu Ping, the center's general manager.
