Xiaomi's humanoid works an 8-hour shift in its car plant, and its home model starts trials in Xiaomi staff housing

For the first time, a Xiaomi humanoid has covered a full day of production at a station in Xiaomi's car factory: it took on an 8-hour run at the dashboard side-panel sorting station and met the station's full-day output, Xiaomi disclosed at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen on Nov. 3, Time Weekly and CNMO reported. Xiaomi says the robot corrected anomalies on its own during the run and coordinated with the line's systems.

Both of the tests Xiaomi announced ran on its own property. The home trial is in a Xiaomi youth apartment, where an agent system built on its Xiaomi-Robotics-1 foundation model completed a task chain lasting more than 30 minutes, across 3 rooms and more than 50 tasks, from preparing tools and tidying the sofa to clearing rubbish, rechecking the whole flat and leaving. Those apartments are employee housing: Xiaomi opened them to staff applications in Beijing and Nanjing in mid-2025 at an average rent of 1,999 yuan a month, Jiemian reported at the time. Xiaomi picks the station, the shift and the flat, which is time on the job that a humanoid maker usually has to win from a customer.

Shift length went from 3 hours to 8 in eight months

In March, the robot ran on its own for 3 hours at the self-tapping nut station, installing nuts on both sides with a 90.2% success rate at a cycle time as fast as 76 seconds, Phoenix Tech reported. By July, according to the 21st Century Business Herald, the nut station had reached 98%, one point below the 99% human pass rate, and the robot had taken on two new stations, side-panel sorting and bin folding, each at 90%. The 8-hour run came at the side-panel station. Xiaomi gave no success rate for it, and that number, set against July's 90%, decides whether the station still needs a person beside it.

The models are public. Xiaomi-Robotics-0, its VLA model, runs with 80-millisecond inference latency on a consumer graphics card, and Xiaomi-Robotics-1 was pretrained on 100,000 hours of real manipulation trajectories; both are open source, CNMO reported.

AgiBot ran its own long test this week in a Shanghai convenience store that stayed open for business, where customers set the pace. At its own plant, Xiaomi sets the pace and the line.