Xiaomi Humanoid Robots Moving Past Prototype Stage to EV Assembly Lines
Xiaomi is now using humanoid robots on its EV assembly lines after moving past the prototype stage. These robots are putting in self tapping nuts which is a big move toward making production autonomous. Before this they went through a lot of tests in fake environments to make sure they could handle a real factory.
In recent tests the humanoid robots worked for three hours straight. The numbers show they are almost as good as people at certain assembly jobs
- Accuracy They hit the mark 90.2 percent of the time when installing nuts
- Speed Each task took 76 seconds about the same as a human worker
- Reaction Time The robot brain updates in under a millisecond so it can adjust quickly while working
These robots are powered by a VLA model that has 4.7 billion parameters. This AI lets the robot see what is around it and do physical tasks all at once. Xiaomi trained the system with millions of fake situations which made it better at dealing with problems. It can keep working even if things change a bit or if the hardware is not perfect.
Xiaomi wants to do more with humanoid tech than just use it in their car factories. They have a five year plan to expand things a lot. Right now they are focused on making their factories run better but they might sell these robots to regular customers later on. As the robots get better and cheaper they could be used in all kinds of industries not just high tech ones.
This shows that Xiaomi is putting a lot of effort into using high parameter AI and quick controller feedback to make humanoid workers that are as good as regular industrial arms. The fact that they can do a task in 76 seconds means that replacing some manual assembly jobs is more about getting enough robots than about the tech not being good enough.
