Xiaomi says its humanoid robot worked a full 8-hour shift in its car factory
The Chinese phone and electric-car maker says the robot sorted dashboard panels all day and fixed its own mistakes, and a home version tidied three rooms in a test apartment.
Xiaomi, the Chinese company that makes phones and electric cars, says one of its humanoid robots, a robot built roughly in the shape of a person, has worked a full eight-hour shift on a car factory line, Chinese tech site IT Home reported Tuesday, citing Xiaomi's official account.
The robot sorted side panels for car center consoles, the area between the front seats, and met the station's needs for a whole day, Xiaomi said. It corrected problems on its own and coordinated with the factory's computer systems. Xiaomi called it an initial check that the robot can handle real production work. It did not say how fast the robot worked compared with people or how often humans stepped in.
Xiaomi said on its technology website in July that its robot had started as an "intern" early this year at a station that fits self-tapping nuts, where its success rate reached 98%. It then moved to sorting the console side panels and folding empty parts bins, reaching 90% success at each, the company said. Xiaomi wrote that staff can take remote control of the robot if something goes wrong.
The AI behind it
Xiaomi's robots run on a "vision-language-action" model, AI that takes in camera images and instructions and outputs movements. Xiaomi said its newer base model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1, learned from 100,000 hours of recordings of real tasks.
In a separate trial in a Xiaomi employee apartment, a robot ran for more than 30 minutes straight across three rooms and over 50 tasks, including tidying sofas and tables, taking out trash and putting items away, the company said.
Source: IT Home (in Chinese), Nov. 3, 2026, citing Xiaomi; Xiaomi technology website (in Chinese), July 14, 2026.