THE ESSENTIALS IN 30 SECONDS

  • Xiaomi says its humanoid robot took on an eight-hour work challenge at a station that sequences center-console side covers; full completion was not confirmed.
  • A home agent system built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 model is in trial use at Xiaomi youth apartments, handling more than 50 tasks across three rooms.
  • Xiaomi says the model was pretrained on 100,000 hours of real-world operation trajectories.

Xiaomi used the 2026 World Internet Conference to give an update on how far its robotics work has moved into real workplaces. According to reports from TokenPost and PANews, the company described two trials: a humanoid robot working a long shift on a car-factory line, and an AI agent system carrying out household chores in what Xiaomi calls its youth apartments.

A long shift on the production line

The factory trial took place at a station where center-console side covers are sorted into sequence before assembly. Xiaomi says its humanoid robot attempted, for the first time, what the company calls an eight-hour work challenge there. During the run, the robot is said to have corrected anomalies on its own and coordinated with the production-line systems around it.

An important caveat: the disclosure did not state that the robot actually finished the full eight hours, and no figures on throughput, error rates or human intervention were reported. The attempt is therefore best read as a test of endurance rather than proof of shift-length reliability. Xiaomi had already presented the robot in August after several months of training in its car plant, where it was described as a prototype.

Chores across three rooms

On the home side, Xiaomi says an agent system based on its Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model has started trial operation in Xiaomi youth apartments. The company reports that it validated long-horizon tasks lasting more than 30 minutes in a row, covering three rooms and more than 50 individual tasks. The reports do not say which robot hardware runs the agent or how often a person had to step in.

The model behind it

According to Xiaomi, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 was pretrained on 100,000 hours of trajectories recorded from real operations, and in July it ranked first overall on the RoboCasa 365 and RoboDojo benchmarks. These leaderboard results are the company's own claims as relayed by the media.

The update fits a wider push by Chinese manufacturers to test humanoid robots in their own factories before selling them. Long, unsupervised runs are one of the main hurdles for such machines, since short demos say little about how they cope with repetition, drift and unexpected parts over many hours. Independent data on Xiaomi's trials has not been published, and the company has not announced a commercial timeline for either system.