Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has joined a growing list of companies who are deploying humanoids on factory floors in manufacturing processes.
Chinese technology company Xiaomi announced on March 2 that it has deployed humanoid robots in EV assembly operations. Xiaomi CEO Li Jun revealed this development on his official WeChat account.According to company sources, the humanoid worked at a self-tapping nut installation workstation in Xiaomi EV’s die-casting workshop.
It achieved a success rate of 90.2% by working for three consecutive hours during the task.The humanoid completed the process in 76 seconds, meeting the production line’s fastest cycle time requirement.Xiaomi said that the deployment of its humanoids marks a key step towards its vision of “large-scale application in automotive manufacturing scenarios.”Speaking to Chinese tech outlet ITHome, the Beijing-based firm revealed the deployments and validation tests are ongoing at other production stations, with further updates to be announced later.Analyzing the taskIn the task, the humanoid robot picked up self-tapping nuts precisely from an automatic feeding device and placed them onto positioning fixtures. In the next step, it coordinated with slide belt conveyors and automatic positioning to complete the automated tightening of floor components after integrated die-casting.According to Xiaomi, the greatest challenge is achieving precise alignment and relatable engagement of the self-tapping nuts. The spline structure inside the nuts, the non-fixed gripping posture, and interference from magnetic forces significantly increased assembly complexity.A joint training frameworkThe Beijing-based tech giant adopted an end-to-end data-driven approach to solve this problem using a joint training framework. It leveraged a 4.7-billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action model developed in-house, combined with reinforcement learning.This approach reduces dependence on manual training data and enables the robot to adapt and learn quickly, and learn from its environment.With multimodal input from different sensing techniques, such as vision, touch, and joint position awareness, the robot is less likely to misinterpret complex situations. This process improves the stability and overall performance of the robot.To control full-body movement, Xiaomi uses a hybrid system that blends traditional optimization-based control with reinforcement learning. The optimization controller updates in under one millisecond, allowing the robot to respond in real time.Meanwhile, the reinforcement learning system was trained using hundreds of millions of simulated disturbances in a virtual environment. The training helps the robot stay balanced even in extreme conditions and allows what it learned in simulation to transfer directly to the real-world robot without additional retraining.The five-year planIn an interview last year, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun shed light on the company’s goal to deploy humanoid robots at a large scale in its factories within the next five years.The company also plans to expand the use of humanoid robots in household settings, which he said “could open a new trillion-yuan market”.Last week, the BMW Group announced its intentions to pilot humanoid robots at its Leipzig plant in Germany this summer.Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already revealed that Optimus Version 3 will be launching later this year, with the current model already performing basic factory tasks.As global automakers and tech firms accelerate real-world trials, Xiaomi’s latest deployment underscores how humanoid robots are steadily moving from experimental prototypes toward practical roles on factory floors.
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