Ke said the next two to three years could be a critical turning point for the humanoid robot sector. Output growth is merely the surface — the deeper shift is that the industry is moving from single-unit prototypes and stage demonstrations toward batch deliveries, which dramatically raises the coordination requirements across research and development, production, testing, application and safety governance.

　　At the prototype stage, companies can solve interface, algorithm and hardware adaptation issues through customized solutions. But once production reaches the scale of tens of thousands of units, any interface incompatibility, inconsistent evaluation methods, or unclear safety boundaries will be magnified into cost, efficiency and market trust problems, experts said.

　　To a certain extent, the core of scaling is not just "expanding production capacity" but also enabling components from different companies to work together, allowing product performance to be compared and contrasted, thus giving users the confidence to buy and use products and providing a basis for after-sales maintenance, they added.

　　Ke called for leveraging the foundational, guiding and supportive role of standards, as well as accelerating the development of urgently needed standards for humanoid robot intelligence classification, data management and safety specifications.

　　Jiang Lei, deputy director of the technical committee, said hardware requires standards and models need "firewalls", adding that the committee expects to roll out the first batch of standards by the end of this year.

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