Humanoid (with QSS AI & Robotics)

Data vendor, HQ United Kingdom. Local assembly at the Riyadh Robotics Factory.

Workers in

Saudi Arabia

Known buyers

Scale

• pre-order framework for up to 10,000 humanoids over five years in Saudi Arabia (2026-09-24)

Pay

• from $8.13/h Mocap-glove data collector, Hubei centre chinadaily.com.cn ↗ Major outlet

Events

• 2026-09-30 Innodata opens a motion-capture lab for humanoid data therobotreport.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-30 Singapore's HTX launches a humanoid training centre htx.gov.sg ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-09-29 MR. ROBOT and TROOPERS sign humanoid training-data MoU tech-critter.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-24 Saudi humanoid push: 10,000-unit Humanoid/QSS framework arabnews.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-20 Reuters: regulators slow humanoid IPOs; data-centre revenue scrutinised moneycontrol.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-18 Toyota trains humanoids via worker-worn finger jigs asiae.co.kr ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-10 National Data Administration holds embodied-AI symposium sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-09-03 Beijing X-Humanoid RoboMIND passes 20M downloads people.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08-28 Beijing's first humanoid data training centre reported suspended sciencenet.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-08-26 World Humanoid Robot Games full dataset released (2,500+ hours) youth.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-07-22 China starts first national standard on humanoid dataset quality sina.com.cn ↗ Secondary
• 2026-07-17 Agility opens Fremont humanoid training facility techcrunch.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-06-25 BitRobot, Hugging Face and Unitree release HIW-500 in-the-wild humanoid dataset zhidx.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-06-09 MIIT and SASAC special action plan on real-world training of humanoids biggo.com ↗ Secondary
• 2026-05-01 Meta acquires humanoid startup ARI techcrunch.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-04-01 MIT Technology Review: gig workers film chores for humanoid training technologyreview.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2026-01-10 Qingdao humanoid data training ground in trial operation qingdaonews.com ↗ Secondary
• 2025-12-31 RoboMIND 2.0 released arxiv.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-10-09 Beijing opens 10,000 sq m humanoid training center beijing.gov.cn ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-10-09 Humanoid Everyday released arxiv.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-06-04 Amazon builds 'humanoid park' test course in San Francisco thestar.com.my ↗ Secondary
• 2025-04-09 Beijing's first humanoid robot data training centre opens at Shougang Park beijing.gov.cn ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-03-17 Fourier open-sources ActionNet humanoid dataset qbitai.com ↗ Secondary
• 2025-03-17 PH2D (Physical Human-Humanoid Data) released arxiv.org ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-02-14 Meta sets up humanoid robotics group in Reality Labs thestar.com.my ↗ Secondary
• 2024-12-18 RoboMIND released arxiv.org ↗ Major outlet

Sources

• Humanoid and QSS have established a pre-order framework for up to 10,000 humanoid units over five yearsarabnews.com ↗ Secondary 2026-09-24

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method