China opens comment on standards for consumer BCI and humanoids
StairMed / product sitePress kit
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the draft National Brain-Computer Interface Industry Standard System Construction Guideline (2026 Edition) for public comment on 24 August 2026. It sets out more than 40 new or revised BCI standards by 2028 and more than 80 by 2030, with over 100 enterprises expected to implement them and Chinese participation in more than 10 international standards.
The draft defines six product categories — medical devices, industrial production, consumer electronics, personal health, scientific research, and integrated applications — organised across seven standard groups covering hardware, software and algorithms, data and communications, products and systems, industry applications, and safety and governance. It is the first Chinese instrument to establish a standards basis for non-medical brain-control devices such as attention training, which supplies a compliance route for consumer-grade BCI products that until now had none.
A second draft followed on 25 August: the National Humanoid Robot Industry Standard System Construction Guideline, open for comment until 23 September 2026, targeting at least 100 key standards by 2028 across capability testing, core technologies, platforms, applications and safety governance, with more than 200 enterprises implementing them.
Both are drafts. The Chinese firms the BCI guideline addresses include Neuracle, StairMed, NeuroXess and BrainCo.