Xiaomi Tech, the company’s official account on X, posted a video on 3 November 2026 showing humanoid robots working at a center-console side-cover sorting workstation in the Xiaomi Auto Factory, with an on-screen counter of cumulative working time reading eight hours, according to Electrek (Fred Lambert, 4 November), Humanoids Daily (Pontus Armini, 3 November) and Interesting Engineering (Jijo Malayil, 4 November). Xiaomi says the robots worked autonomously, caught and corrected their own errors, and coordinated with the production line’s control system. Interesting Engineering quotes the post’s caption as “8 hours on the production line.” Xiaomi did not disclose how many parts were sorted, the success rate over the run or the number of human interventions.

What the video shows

According to Interesting Engineering, the robots take center-console side covers from large containers on mobile platforms and place them into designated slots on upright racks; Martin Cid Magazine says they place them in the sequence the production line requires. Martin Cid and Let’s Data Science add that small autonomous mobile robots deliver the bins. Xiaomi says the robot covered the workstation’s full day of production needs, according to Electrek. The footage carries an “autonomous” overlay and playback-speed labels: Humanoids Daily reports overlays showing 5x and 100x, and Electrek reports a label reading “Autonomous, 100x Speed” while saying it cannot confirm whether the footage is sped up. Let’s Data Science, relaying The Gadgeteer, says the video is edited and sped up as much as 100 times in places, so counter readings are not wall-clock times.

Where outlets differ

  • Robots and model: Interesting Engineering and Martin Cid report two humanoids. Electrek says one segment shows two legged robots plus a wheeled humanoid upper body and gives no count for the station, and Humanoids Daily’s summary refers to a single full-size humanoid. Martin Cid and Let’s Data Science name the model CyberOne 02, which Martin Cid describes as the follow-up to Xiaomi’s 2022 CyberOne. Electrek, Humanoids Daily and Interesting Engineering do not name a model.
  • Duration: the counter reads eight hours in Xiaomi’s post as described by Electrek. Martin Cid, Let’s Data Science and the YouTube video’s description give 8 hours 5 minutes.
  • Charging: Electrek, Humanoids Daily and Interesting Engineering report no charging or battery-swap details in Xiaomi’s post. Martin Cid and Let’s Data Science, relaying reporting by the Chinese outlet CLS through The Gadgeteer, report two charging breaks, at 3 hours 2 minutes and 6 hours 3 minutes on the counter, and say a wheeled robot picked up a part that another robot dropped in the second half.
  • Who posted it: Electrek, Humanoids Daily and Interesting Engineering say Xiaomi Tech on X. Martin Cid says Chinese reports have Xiaomi founder Lei Jun posting it on Weibo.

Earlier trials

Electrek, Humanoids Daily and Interesting Engineering report that in March 2026 Xiaomi tested a humanoid at its Beijing EV factory in an “intern” role installing self-tapping nuts, with a 90.2% success rate over a three-hour autonomous pilot that met the station’s 76-second cycle time. Electrek says Xiaomi reported the rate reached 98% by July, when it added two harder stations including side-cover sorting; Martin Cid gives 98% against 99% for experienced workers. Humanoids Daily notes the earlier success rate applies to the nut-installation trial, not to this sorting run. Electrek also reports that Lei Jun said in December 2025 that Xiaomi plans large-scale humanoid deployment across its factories within five years, and describes Xiaomi-Robotics-1, an open-source AI model pre-trained on 100,000 hours of real-world robot data that completed more than 50 task chains across three rooms in a 30-minute run in staff apartments.

What was not disclosed

Taken together, Electrek, Humanoids Daily, Interesting Engineering and Martin Cid report that Xiaomi did not disclose the number of parts sorted, the success rate over the run, the number of human interventions, which faults the robots can recover from and how often recovery was needed, throughput, or how the robots were powered through the run. Martin Cid reports that Xiaomi calls the test a “preliminary validation” at one workstation rather than a robot crew running a production line.

About the video

The video below is from the DPCcars YouTube channel, published on 8 November 2026 and about 5 minutes 45 seconds long. It is a third-party summary, not Xiaomi’s own upload. Lens read the video’s description, which says Xiaomi released footage of humanoid robots working for about 8 hours and 5 minutes in its electric-vehicle factory, sorting center-console side covers and coordinating with autonomous mobile robots, and which repeats the earlier nut-installation results of 90.2% rising to about 98%. Lens did not watch the video itself.

Sources and notes

Sources, read through summaries: Electrek (Fred Lambert, 4 November 2026), Humanoids Daily (Pontus Armini, 3 November), Interesting Engineering (Jijo Malayil, 4 November), Martin Cid Magazine (Susan Hill, 5 November) and Let’s Data Science (5 November), plus the video’s YouTube page metadata. Lens did not read Xiaomi Tech’s X post, which Let’s Data Science links, or any Weibo post, The Gadgeteer’s article or the CLS report. The model name, the 8 hours 5 minutes figure and the charging breaks therefore reach this post only through secondary outlets, and the outlets do not agree on them.

Image: A car assembly line at Geely in Beilun District, Ningbo, China, December 2011. Photo: Siyuwj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped. Stand-in image of a different carmaker’s assembly line; it does not show Xiaomi’s factory or any robot.