China unveiled its first full-life-cycle management service platform for humanoid robots in Beijing on Friday, enabling traceability of all humanoid robots in the country from assembly to scrapping.
From now on, every humanoid robot made in China will be assigned a unique four-segment identity code to ensure its traceability from research and development to production, market authorization, sales, usage, scrapping, and recycling.
Established by the Humanoid Robots and Embodied Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the full-life-cycle management system will ensure humanoid robots remain under control to prevent risks and improve accountability.
"It ensures the rigidity of management by comprising the country code, enterprise code, product code, and serial number, which guarantees global uniqueness, traceability, type differentiation, and individual tracking of humanoid robots. On the other hand, it provides technical flexibility for enterprises by allowing them to customize codes, fully taking their existing coding systems into account," said Dong Jian, director of the Information Technology Research Center at the China Electronics Standardization Institute.
So far, the platform has already covered more than 100 humanoid robot enterprises across China and has completed full-life-cycle ID code assignment for over 200 product models and more than 28,000 robots.
China launches first digital ID system for humanoid robots
A Ukrainian negotiating team is en route to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for talks with representatives of Russia and the United States, said the country's primary negotiator Rustem Umerov in a post published on X on Monday.
The trilateral negotiations are scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Umerov, who is also head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service.
Representatives of European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy, as well as officials from NATO and the European Commission, will also be present in Abu Dhabi, he said.
Umerov said that Ukraine plans to hold separate coordination meetings with its European partners.
"Our goal is a long-term and sustainable peace, guaranteed security for Ukraine, and real opportunities for Ukraine's post-war recovery," he said.
On the same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference that "security for Russia, Ukraine and the region as a whole is the very first item on the agenda" for the Abu Dhabi meeting, which will mark the first trilateral meeting between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States since February.
Lavrov said Russia had taken note of a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, emphasizing that security issues are of paramount importance, both for the upcoming talks and for the situation surrounding the Ukrainian conflict as a whole.
Russia welcomes the U.S. approach to the security issue, he said.
Lavrov said there is a "shared understanding that these negotiations are intended to agree on the principles that will ultimately be endorsed as part of a comprehensive settlement."
Lavrov said that Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov being part of the negotiating team was "entirely natural" as Ryabkov is responsible for North Atlantic affairs and arms control and spent a considerable part of his career working on issues related to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Ukraine delegation heads to Abu Dhabi talks as Russia says security tops agenda
