More than 70 embodied-AI training grounds had been built and put into operation across China by the end of June, according to a 2026 report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Another 46 facilities were under construction or in the planning stage, with the sites spread across more than half of China’s provincial-level regions.
The facilities provide physical environments for collecting real-world data, training models and testing robotic systems. Industrial manufacturing is the most common application, appearing in 86% of the training grounds, while the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Pearl River Delta regions have emerged as the main clusters. [[IT Home, in Chinese]