Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said Xiaomi’s humanoid robots have begun trial operations at its automobile factory, with plans to deploy large numbers of the machines across its production facilities within the next five years. In a social media post, Lei said the company’s robotics unit has made progress based on its general-purpose vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-0. By integrating multimodal perception and reinforcement learning technologies, the humanoid robot has initially achieved autonomous operations in tasks such as loading self-tapping nuts at assembly stations and transporting material boxes.
Key performance indicators, including mean time between failures and single-task success rates, are steadily improving, Lei said, adding that the company is continuing deployment and validation work across additional production stations. Xiaomi has been expanding beyond its core smartphone business into electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing, as it seeks new growth drivers in emerging technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. [TechNode Reporting]
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