RealMan Robotics offers a number of what it calls “compound robots,” which bring together a wheeled base and one or two of the company’s robotic arms. | Source: RealMan Robotics
RealMan Robotics, a Beijing-based developer of robotic arms and mobile manipulators, this week launched a robotics data training center in Beijing. The company said the hub brings together core technology R&D, scenario-based application testing, operator training, and ecosystem collaboration.
On opening day, RealMan unveiled the RealBOT Embodied Intelligence Open Platform, which it designed for data acquisition. Spanning 3,000 square meters, the center is divided into a training zone and an application zone, with 108 robots of diverse forms already deployed. These include dual-arm mobile manipulators, wheeled semi-humanoids, drone-arms, and quadrupeds.
To ensure data quality and scenario realism, the center has constructed ten real-world environments – including eldercare and rehabilitation, special operations, new retail, automotive assembly, and smart catering. RealMan said these scenarios support large-scale multimodal data generation, producing an estimated over one million high-quality data points annually for training advanced AI models.
RealMan Robotics said it will play a central role in both the deployment and daily operations of the center. Founded in 2018, the company said its robotic arms cater to retail, food service, commercial services, inspections, healthcare, education, aerospace, and industrial production.
RealMan targets common pain points in deploying robotics
RealMan Robotics said the center addresses three fundamental pain points in robotics:
- Lack of cross-scenario data generalization
- Significant gaps between simulation and real-world conditions
- Absence of standardized data formats and efficient closed-loop iteration
By creating a full-stack data pipeline – from collection and training to validation and deployment – the center aims to accelerate the commercialization of semi-humanoid robotics and embodied AI.
“Robots face three enduring bottlenecks before they can scale into everyday life: operational capability, generalization, and cost efficiency,” Eric Zheng, the Director of the Humanoid Robotics Data Training Center, said at the center’s opening day. “Traditional industrial arms are heavy and expensive, service robots remain too simplistic, and most lack the adaptability of humans in complex environments. Long deployment cycles and poor scenario adaptability – combined with high costs – continue to limit adoption.”
Looking forward, the training center aims to expand industry-academia collaboration, mobilize ecosystem resources, and foster a culture of technology co-creation, data sharing, and business co-growth.
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