National and Local Co-built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center (Shanghai)

A national-level humanoid-robotics platform in Shanghai, China, that built the open-source humanoid robot Qinglong.

This is a humanoid-robotics innovation platform backed jointly by China's central and Shanghai municipal governments, reportedly formed in 2024 and operated through Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., with Lei Jiang as chief scientist. It is meant to serve as a public platform for the industry rather than sell its own products. On July 6, 2024, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, it unveiled the full-size open-source humanoid robot Qinglong (185 cm tall, with 43 active degrees of freedom). It also runs the OpenLoong open-source community, incubated by the OpenAtom Foundation, which publishes Qinglong's full hardware drawings, control framework, and whole-body dynamics software; the center has since added the smaller Qinglong Mini, the “Gewu” simulation platform, and the “Baihu” dataset. In January 2026, together with Vtouch Technology, it released the Baihu-VTouch visuotactile dataset.

ExampleA university lab can download Qinglong's hardware designs and control code from the OpenLoong community to reproduce or modify its own humanoid robot.

Also called

Shanghai Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, Humanoid Robot (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Related

Qinglong (OpenLoong) · Baihu-VTouch Visuo-Tactile Dataset · Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center · Open-source Hardware · Humanoid Robot

Sources

OpenLoong 开源社区 (Chinese)
国家地方共建人形机器人创新中心发布青龙 (Chinese)
白虎-VTouch 发布报道 (Chinese)

As of

2026-01