Xiaomi has released video of humanoid robots sorting center-console side covers at its electric-vehicle factory, describing the task as a full eight-hour shift. The company says the robots worked autonomously, detected and corrected anomalies, and coordinated with the production line’s control system.
Posted by Xiaomi Tech on X on November 3, the video shows robots taking parts from bins, carrying them to storage racks and placing them into slots. A running clock displays cumulative working time, alongside a label reading “Autonomous, 100x Speed.” Xiaomi says the robots met the workstation’s production needs and called the trial another step toward industrial deployment.
The video does not include figures for the number of parts sorted, the robots’ success rate over eight hours or how often a person intervened. Xiaomi also did not explain how the robots remained powered throughout the shift.
The demonstration is the latest in a series of factory tests. In March, Xiaomi said a humanoid robot at its Beijing EV factory had a 90.2% success rate over three hours while installing self-tapping nuts, meeting the station’s 76-second cycle time. By July, the company reported a 98% success rate and said it had added two more challenging tasks, including sorting the side covers shown in the new footage.
One section of the video, labelled “Dropped Material: Multi-Robot Collaboration,” shows a humanoid upper body mounted on a wheeled base moving in to assist two bipedal robots. The footage also shows autonomous mobile robots moving bins of parts.
Xiaomi separately said its open-source Xiaomi-Robotics-1 AI model, trained on 100,000 hours of real-world robot data, has begun trial runs in staff apartments. The company said it completed more than 50 task chains across three rooms during a 30-minute run. Last December, CEO Lei Jun said Xiaomi planned to deploy humanoid robots in large numbers across its factories within five years.
Sources: Electrek.