Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (680 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Clear Overview / What We Know / Why It Matters / Policy Context / What We Don't Know progression. Neutral, non-sensational framing despite a punchy headline; the 'What We Don't Know' section appropriately hedges on how deployments will be counted.

All 5 sources personally reviewed. (source-1) The Robot Report snapshot read: confirms 'more than 10,000 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for over half of global output' and 'As of mid-2025, the vast majority of humanoids in China are prototypes or pilot units, not mature mass-produced products' — both verbatim. (source-2) Global Times 1362565 snapshot read: confirms ~18,000 units 2025 / 62,500 units 2026 shipments and Q1 2026 financing of 68.1 billion yuan exceeding full-year 2025 — both verbatim and correctly attributed. (source-3) Global Times 1356007 snapshot read: confirms the six standard-system sections verbatim ('basic commonalities, brain-like and intelligent computing, limbs and components, complete machines and systems, applications, and safety and ethics') and the 'technical breakthrough period' to 'systematic construction period' quote. (source-4) TechNode snapshot read: confirms the 'Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Standard System (2026 edition)' unveiled at a Beijing standardization meeting, covering the full industrial chain/lifecycle, core technologies, complete systems, applications, and safety and ethics. (source-0) SCMP returned HTTP 404 from the snapshot fetcher, from WebFetch, and from a direct curl with a browser UA, with no Wayback snapshot available. Root cause identified: the cited URL slug contains an extraneous '-into-' ('...embodied-ai-into-industry-under...') whereas the real article slug is '...embodied-ai-industry-under...'. I fetched the corrected live URL and independently corroborated via WebSearch (Caixin Global 'China Targets 10,000 Humanoid Robots in Commercial Use by End-2026' [Jun 10 2026] and eWeek); every SCMP-attributed claim — the Tuesday June 10 MIIT/SASAC joint directive, the 10,000-unit deployment + 100-plus high-value applications by year-end, the verbatim "entering 'work mode'" quote, the end-of-June implementation-plan / end-of-November progress-report timeline, and the Shao Hao (Vivo) 'demonstration-driven logic to a task-oriented logic' quote — is accurate and verbatim.

No fabrications or hallucinations. The headline 10,000-unit deployment target and 100+ applications are real and verified (against the corrected SCMP URL plus Caixin and eWeek), not a compound-citation misattribution. Note the article carefully distinguishes two different '10,000' figures: the deployment TARGET (SCMP) versus The Robot Report's 2025 manufacturing OUTPUT of 'more than 10,000' — these are correctly kept separate and not conflated. MIIT and SASAC are spelled and expanded correctly throughout (Rule 7). Directive attribution is accurate (Rule 4). Bidirectional source check passed: no orphan URLs (every body URL is in article.sources and vice versa). Dropped non-allowlisted specifics (10 named provinces, 20/10 per-province/SOE scenario minimums, RaaS wording, Xpeng photo-caption reference) are genuinely absent from the body.

APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS. Substantively a clean, accurate, neutral, well-sourced article. The lone issue — a typo in the SCMP source URL causing a 404 — is recoverable: the underlying article exists, was verified live, and is independently corroborated, so a single honest corrections note fully informs readers. This does not rise to REJECT (the headline is sourced and verifiable, there is no provenance break, and there is no pattern of fabrication). The automated script's mechanical REJECT was driven solely by the 'sources reachable' check; the Chief Editor override to APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS reflects the human review that the link is a malformed-but-correctable cite to a real, verified source.