Xiaomi shows two humanoids at an eight-hour sorting shift in its car factory
Xiaomi posted a video of two humanoids sorting console side covers for eight hours, but gave no throughput, intervention or battery figures.
Xiaomi has published a video of two humanoid robots handling car parts at a side-cover sorting station in its auto factory. The company says the task ran for eight hours. The footage, shared on 3 November, shows the robots moving console covers between bins on wheeled carriers and slotted shelves, with a running clock for total working time and labels marking the work as autonomous. Some clips are sped up, at 5x and 100x.
Xiaomi also claims the robot spots and fixes its own mistakes and stays in step with the production line system. It does not say which kinds of faults the robot can recover from, or how often it had to do so during the run.
The demo follows a March pilot at Xiaomi's Beijing EV plant, where a humanoid reached a 90.2% success rate installing self-tapping nuts over three hours. That figure belongs to a different task and does not carry over to sorting.
Why it matters
Lasting a full shift is a harder test than a short, polished run, and other carmakers, including Audi, BMW and Hyundai-linked projects, are probing the same question. Still, Xiaomi has given no parts-per-hour rate, pick success rate or count of human interventions. It also has not explained charging or battery swaps, so eight hours should not be read as one charge. Those numbers are what to watch for next.
