Xiaomi says two humanoid robots completed an eight-hour shift sorting car parts at its electric-vehicle factory, but it has not published figures on output or human intervention to verify its claim that they worked autonomously.
A video released November 3 shows the robots handling side covers for car center consoles, moving parts from containers and placing them in racks at a sorting station. Xiaomi says the machines could spot and fix problems and work with the factory’s production-line system. The clip has a running time counter and labels the operation autonomous, although much of the footage is sped up.
The demonstration was a longer factory task than the brief trials often used to showcase humanoid robots. It does not show how consistently the machines worked during the shift. Xiaomi has not said how many parts the robots sorted.
It has not said what share of tasks they completed successfully. It has not said how often people had to step in. Details of how the robots managed power during the run also remain unclear.
These missing measures make it hard to judge whether the trial shows reliable production work with little supervision or is a company demonstration whose limits have not been disclosed.