Xiaomi posted a video on X on November 3 showing its full-size humanoid robots completing an eight-hour shift at its EV factory, sorting centre console side covers, Electrek reported on November 4. The company said the robots detected and corrected anomalies on their own and coordinated with the production line’s control system, calling it another step toward real-world industrial deployment, Electrek reported. Xiaomi said the run covered the full day of production needs at that workstation.
8 hours on the production line. ? Xiaomi’s full-size humanoid robot takes on an 8-hour task at the Center Console Side-Cover Sorting Workstation at Xiaomi Auto Factory. Beyond sustained operation, it can autonomously detect and correct anomalies while coordinating with the production line system — another step toward real-world industrial deployment. #XiaomiRobotics #EmbodiedAI
— Xiaomi Tech (@XiaomiTech_) November 3, 2026
The video shows the robots pulling side covers from bins, carrying them to storage racks, and placing them into slots, with a running clock of cumulative working time and an “Autonomous, 100x Speed” label in the corner, Electrek reported. Two CyberOne 02 humanoids, one black and one white, worked the centre console side cover sequencing station inside the final assembly shop, The Gadgeteer reported, citing CLS. The pair recharged after 3 hours 2 minutes and again after 6 hours 3 minutes of work, and finished at 8 hours 5 minutes, according to the video.
This is the third public milestone in a program Xiaomi has been running in public all year, with a 90.2% success rate over three hours in March, fast enough to meet the station’s 76-second cycle time. By July the company said the rate had reached 98%, against 99% for experienced workers, and it had added the side-panel sorting job and the folding of returnable boxes. Lei Jun said last December that Xiaomi plans to put humanoids to work in large numbers across its factories within five years, Martin Cid Magazine reported.
Xiaomi did not say how many parts the robots sorted, nor how many times a human had to step in. At 100x speed, eight hours last under five minutes, so the footage is a compressed version of the shift, not the full recording, Pasquale Pillitteri reported. Xiaomi calls the run a preliminary validation at one workstation, not a robot crew running a production line, Martin Cid Magazine reported, and the robot remains a prototype, with no price or sale date announced, Pasquale Pillitteri reported.
Source: Electrek; Xiaomi, via X; CLS, via The Gadgeteer; Martin Cid Magazine; Roboticaguide; Pasquale Pillitteri
