China now has at least 90 humanoid data collection centers, turning teleop data into its deepest moat
paigeinsf · x · 2026-09-09
- Beyond viral videos of dancing and backflipping robots, China is quietly building the infrastructure behind robot foundation models.
- When the author first visited China's robotics scene in early last year, humanoid data collection centers were just starting in Shanghai; by her count, at least 90 are now operating or planned nationwide.
- Teleop data is enormously valuable but painful to collect at scale — China is turning that bottleneck into infrastructure, which may be its deepest moat.
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