"The biggest challenge is for them to keep up with the pace. In Xiaomi's car factory, every 76 seconds, a new car gets off the assembly line. The two humanoid robots are able to keep up our pace."
"The robots in our production lines weren't doing an official job, more like the interns. Interns get supervised. Interns don't run critical stations alone. Interns make mistakes, and someone steps in to fix them before they become a problem."
Xiaomi conducted a trial of two humanoid robots at its electric vehicle manufacturing plant, where they worked a three-hour shift performing tasks like installing nuts and moving materials. The robots achieved approximately 90% task completion while maintaining the factory's production pace of one vehicle every 76 seconds. Xiaomi President Lu Weibing emphasized that the robots must operate at human speed or faster without slowing the assembly line. The company frames this deployment as an internship phase rather than a replacement of human workers, indicating the robots are still in supervised trial mode and not yet operating as independent production assets. The robots are not currently being sold commercially.
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