Embodied AI Robot Application Technician

A national occupation category China created in September 2026, covering data collection, model tuning, and field deployment for robots.

On September 9, 2026, China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments published the eighth batch of new occupations, including “Embodied AI Robot Application Technician” (occupation code 4-04-05-16), proposed by the China Institute of Electronics with technical backing from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. The official definition broadly covers people who use teleoperation equipment, spatial digitization tools, and simulation-testing platforms to collect and process multimodal robot interaction data, fine-tune and adapt algorithm models, deploy and debug hardware and software on-site, and monitor and optimize operations. It splits into two job types, embodied AI robot data collector and trainer, listed as this term's aliases. Being added to the national occupation classification means official standards, training programs, and skills assessments can now be built around it, and it gives frontline roles like data collector a formal job title.

ExampleA data collector wearing a VR headset to teleoperate a robot folding clothes at a data-collection facility falls under the “embodied AI robot data collector” job type.

Also called

Embodied AI Robot Data Collector, Embodied AI Robot Trainer

Related

Data Collector (Teleoperator) · Embodied AI Training Ground (Robot Data Collection Center) · Teleoperation · Data Collection SOP · Embodied AI Data Service Provider · Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center

Sources

北京人形：具身智能机器人应用技术员进入国家新职业序列 (Chinese)
钛媒体：机器人还没学会做家务，卖数据的已经先赚到了钱 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09