Hubei government humanoid data collection centre

China centre, HQ China. One of 40-plus state data centres; trainers elsewhere describe themselves as cyber-laborers repeating moves in VR headsets and arm exoskeletons.

Data it collects

Workers in

China

Scale

• nearly 100 human-controlled humanoids repeating chores hundreds of times a day (2026-01-07)
• more than 40 state-owned robot data collection centres announced nationwide by December 2025 (2026-01-07)

Events

• 2026-09-24 Saudi humanoid push: 10,000-unit Humanoid/QSS framework arabnews.com ↗ Secondary

Sources

• In another government data collection center in Hubei province, nearly 100 humanoids, controlled by humans, practice movements like folding clothes, ironing, and wiping the table hundreds of times a dayrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-01-07
• By December, more than 40 state-owned robot data collection centers had been announced in the countryrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-01-07
• Wearing a virtual reality headset and exoskeletons on his arms, he repeated the movement hundreds of timesrestofworld.org ↗ Major outlet 2026-01-07

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