Xiaomi’s humanoid robots work a full 8-hour shift in its EV factory — SkimNews
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- Xiaomi posted a November 3 video showing humanoid robots sorting car side covers through an eight-hour shift that it says met full-day production needs, with the robots detecting and correcting anomalies autonomously.
- Xiaomi reported a 90.2% success rate over three hours on self-tapping-nut installation in March—fast enough for the station’s 76-second cycle time—and said success reached 98% by July after adding two harder stations.
- Xiaomi did not disclose how many parts were sorted, the eight-hour success rate, how often humans stepped in, or whether the robots used battery swaps, a tether or charging breaks.
- Xiaomi showed a wheeled humanoid upper body rolling in to help two legged robots at 1:37 in its video, while autonomous mobile robots used in car factories for years shuttled the bins of parts.
- Xiaomi-Robotics-1, pre-trained on 100,000 hours of real-world robot data, completed more than 50 task chains across three rooms in a 30-minute trial in Xiaomi's staff apartments.
- Lei Jun said last December that Xiaomi plans to deploy humanoid robots in large numbers across its factories within five years.
Why it matters: For factory operators, the 98% success rate and 76-second cycle time Xiaomi reported for earlier tests offer concrete benchmarks the new release lacks. Parts counts, human-intervention totals and power logistics remain undisclosed, so the eight-hour run shows a production-line use case but not independently verifiable autonomy.
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