China's Robot Data Collection Centres: Size, Robots, Collectors, Pay and Data Produced

How it was measured

Chinese government and company pages, prospectuses, Xinhua, People's Daily, Yicai, The Paper, 36Kr and international outlets, each linked with a verbatim quote kept in the dataset. Each row carries a link to its publication and gives the number exactly as published, with no estimates or conversions. A note under every figure says what it covers.

Training ground

A facility where people operate or demonstrate with robots all day to record training data, often state-backed in China.

Data collector

A person who teleoperates robots or wears capture rigs to record tasks.

Limits of this data

• Built only from public sources. Anything never announced or reported is absent, and private-company figures are whatever the company or the press said, unaudited.
• Figures differ between sources (floor area, robot counts), and each is given as its source states it.
• Pay at named centres is rarely published; the pay records come from agencies, crowdsourcing partners and reporting.

Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.

Monthly editions

The live page shows the dataset as of its latest review, and new events join it once they are made public. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

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Quoting this report

You may quote, chart or republish these figures under CC BY 4.0, provided you link back to this page. The live numbers shift every day. For a figure that stays put, quote a monthly edition, or note the date you accessed this page.

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