Xiaomi's Humanoid Robot Starts Factory "Internship," Works 3 Hours Straight on Auto Production Line

Xiaomi's humanoid robot has entered an automotive factory for real-world testing. According to Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi Group, two robots operated continuously on the production line for three hours, achieving a 90.2% success rate in bilateral installation at the self-tapping nut assembly station and meeting the production cycle requirement of as fast as 76 seconds per unit. Xiaomi is actively advancing the large-scale deployment of general-purpose humanoid robots in smart manufacturing, with plans to deploy a significant number of such robots in its own factories within the next five years. Technologically, leveraging its self-developed VLA foundation model—Xiaomi-Robotics-0—as well as multimodal perception and reinforcement learning, the robot can already perform tasks such as material bin handling. Additionally, Xiaomi will launch a new generation of robotic products this year, integrating its self-developed chip, operating system, and large AI models. Netizens joked, "No need to urge Chairman Lei to tighten screws anymore."