MIIT Solicits Feedback on Draft Rules for Universal Robot 'Identity Codes'

IT Home November 7 news, the First Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on November 6 publicly solicited opinions on the “Interim Measures for the Management of Robot Product Identification Codes (Draft for Solicitation of Opinions),” with the public exhibition period lasting until December 5.

The core of this document is to establish a unified

According to the draft for comments, the robot product identification code consists of four parts: manufacturer code, product description code, product serial number code, and other codes. The encoding and assignment of codes must comply with the national standard GB/T 48541-2026 “Robot Product Identification Code”. The formulation plan for this national standard was issued in January 2026, and it is under the jurisdiction of the National Robot Standardization Technical Committee, currently in the solicitation of comments stage. IT Home Note: GB/T is a national recommended standard; enterprises can adopt it voluntarily, but once it is cited in administrative regulations, it will have de facto binding force within its scope of application.

This method did not start from scratch. In May 2026, the Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology led the release of the nation's first humanoid robot full life cycle management service platform. The accompanying “Humanoid Robot Full Life Cycle Management Specification” adopts a 29-bit four-segment code, which are respectively the national code, enterprise code, product code, and serial code, covering the entire chain of traceability from factory exit, circulation, use, to scrap and recycling. As of May, the platform has covered over 100 enterprises, and over 28,000 humanoid robots have completed code assignment.

This draft for comments expands the scope of application of the identification code from humanoid robots to all categories of robots, meaning that industrial robots, service robots, special robots, etc., are all included under the same coding framework.

References:

• 《Public notice regarding the solicitation of comments on the “Interim Measures for the Management of Robot Product Identification Codes (Draft for Comments)”》

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