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MIIT reports more than 40,000 humanoids produced in H1 2026

Government-reported production; full-year figure is a forecastOctober 20, 2026

Unitree G1 humanoid and Go2 quadruped on stage at Japan Mobility Show 2025. — Unitree G1 and Go2 at Japan Mobility Show 2025. An archive view of Chinese-made robots, illustrating the wider industry covered by MIIT’s production figures. Image: RuinDig / Yuki Uchida · CC BY 4.0 · 3840 × 2160 · Downsampled where needed to 4K or larger and WebP optimized; smaller card preview. No upscaling.

What happened

At an October 19 State Council Information Office briefing published by MIIT on October 20, the ministry also reported more than 400 complete humanoid products and said robots are being validated or deployed across more than 300 priority scenarios in logistics, retail, food service and home services. It did not publish model-level shipment, sales, utilization or task-success data.

Why it matters

The figures provide an official snapshot of China's manufacturing scale and field-validation activity. Production is not the same as sales or sustained deployment, the 100,000-unit figure is a forecast rather than an achieved result, and the scenario count does not independently establish reliability or commercial value.

Source checked October 31, 2026. Status describes the evidence in the linked source at the time of review.