Xiaomi Humanoid Completes First 8-Hour Car Factory Shift; Xiaomi-Robotics-1 Enters Apartment Trial

Xiaomi says its humanoid robot has for the first time completed an eight-hour work assignment at its car factory, covering the full daily production demand of the center console side-cover sorting station. The company also began a home-service trial of its Xiaomi-Robotics-1 embodied foundation model at a Xiaomi Youth Apartment, its rental housing for employees.

Xiaomi disclosed both milestones at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, where its robotics team received a Leading Technology Award for foundation model technology aimed at large-scale robot manipulation.

Factory: from three hours to a full shift

According to Xiaomi, the robot corrected anomalies on its own during the eight-hour shift and coordinated with production line systems. The company describes this as a preliminary validation of line-level capability.

The shift follows a factory internship that began in March:

• March: the robot worked three hours autonomously at a self-tapping nut loading station, reaching a 90.2% two-sided installation success rate while meeting the line's 76-second cycle time.
• July: that success rate reached 98%, and the robot took on two more stations, side-cover sorting and bin folding.
• Now: Xiaomi puts success rates across the three stations at 94% to 98%.

Home: 50+ tasks in a single run

In the apartment, engineers built an agent system on top of the pretrained Xiaomi-Robotics-1 model, covering data collection, model inference and task execution. They refined it over several rounds of post-training.

In a validation run, the system worked continuously for more than 30 minutes across three rooms and completed more than 50 tasks. These included preparing tools, tidying a sofa and tables, clearing trash, sorting items back into place, inspecting rooms, rechecking the whole unit and leaving. A video released by Xiaomi presents the run as a single 32-minute take.

Xiaomi has not said how many robots are involved in the apartment trial, which apartment hosts it, or how long the trial will run.

The model stack

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 was unveiled on July 16 and open-sourced in August. Xiaomi says the model was:

• Pretrained on more than 100,000 hours of real-world manipulation trajectories spanning over 1,700 scenes and 260 task types.
• Post-trained on more than 10,000 hours of cross-embodiment data so it can be adapted to mobile manipulators and dual-arm robots.

The company says it ranked first overall on the RoboCasa 365 and RoboDojo leaderboards in July. Its separate vision-language-action model, Xiaomi-Robotics-0, uses a hybrid architecture that Xiaomi says reaches 80-millisecond inference latency on a consumer graphics card.

Parameter count, context window and pricing for these models are not part of the announcement.

What this means

The factory result is a duration milestone: the robot went from a three-hour autonomous run at one station in March to covering a full day of demand at the side-cover sorting station. Xiaomi frames it as preliminary validation, not a finished line deployment, and the success rates and shift results are company-reported.

The apartment run is a validation, not a deployment. Its scope is a single run of more than 30 minutes across three rooms, and Xiaomi has given no details on trial size or length.

The notable claim is architectural: Xiaomi presents the factory and the home as one model stack, with Xiaomi-Robotics-1 as the pretrained base and task-specific post-training and agent systems on top. Because the model is open-sourced, the pretraining and cross-embodiment data figures Xiaomi cites describe a base others can adapt to mobile manipulators and dual-arm robots.