Xiaomi Wins Two Awards at World Internet Conference, Discloses Progress on Embodied Foundation Model in Factory and Home Scenarios

Xiaomi Wins Double Honors at Wuzhen Summit: Xiaomi Group Receives "Outstanding Contribution Award," Xiaomi Embodied Foundation Model Wins "Leading Technology Award" Zhong Lilei 1 hour ago Xiaomi disclosed that its robotics business has received national-level authoritative recognition for its hardcore technological strength.

On November 3, Xiaomi disclosed that Xiaomi Group received the "Outstanding Contribution Award" in the Innovation Breakthrough category at the 2026 World Internet Conference. The award aims to recognize individuals and enterprises that have made outstanding contributions in global internet-related fields. At the same time, Xiaomi's robotics business, "Key Technologies for a General-Purpose Robot Manipulation Foundation Model Oriented Toward Large-Scale Deployment," received the conference's "Leading Technology Award," which aims to reward the world's most leading internet technological achievements of the year.

During the summit, Xiaomi also disclosed two latest deployment advances in its robotics business in industrial manufacturing and home scenarios.

In the factory scenario, Xiaomi disclosed the latest "internship" progress of its humanoid robot at an automobile factory: at the center console side cover panel sequencing workstation, it challenged an 8-hour work task for the first time, meeting the workstation's full-day production needs, and achieved autonomous correction of anomalies during operation and system-level coordination with the production line, initially completing verification of production-line-level operational capability.

In the home scenario, Xiaomi's embodied foundation model officially launched "trial operation" at Xiaomi Youth Apartments. Based on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, an Agent system has been built and has completed long-horizon task verification at Xiaomi Youth Apartments lasting more than 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and including 50+ tasks.

Hu Qimu, deputy secretary-general of the China Digital-Real Economy Integration 50 Forum and chief researcher of the Digital Economy Think Tank, said that Xiaomi Robotics achieving a full 8-hour shift operation at an automobile factory and initially completing verification of production-line-level operational capability is an important exploration of humanoid robots empowering intelligent manufacturing. "Xiaomi's uniqueness lies in the fact that its robotics business grows on top of a real manufacturing system, and the intelligent manufacturing factory provides a scarce source of high-quality training data."

Hu Qimu believes that Xiaomi's well-developed "human-car-home full ecosystem" business layout provides a good deployment channel for its robotics business. The launch of trial operation of Xiaomi's embodied foundation model at Youth Apartments represents Xiaomi Robotics beginning to explore home scenarios, which place higher demands on model generalization capability. A single technology foundation simultaneously supporting the two major scenarios of industry and home shows that Xiaomi has already established a positive cycle in which "scenarios define technology, and technology feeds back into scenarios." Double awards at the Wuzhen Summit recognize Xiaomi Group as underlying technological innovation ushers in systematic breakthroughs

The 2026 World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, from November 2 to November 5. Xiaomi Group won the conference's "Outstanding Contribution Award," and the Xiaomi robotics team's key technologies for its embodied foundation model won the conference's "Leading Technology Award."

The Wuzhen Summit "Outstanding Contribution Award" was established in 2024 to recognize individuals and enterprises that have made outstanding contributions in global internet-related fields. This year, more than 230 enterprises worldwide applied, covering nearly 20 countries and regions and spanning multiple tracks including artificial intelligence, chip design, mobile communications, and internet platforms. After two rounds of review by top global experts, only 15 enterprises ultimately received this honor.

Xiaomi won the award on its first application, fully reflecting the World Internet Conference's recognition of Xiaomi's hardcore technological innovation and breakthrough capabilities. As a technology company whose core technology layout covers multiple fields including chips, AI, OS, intelligent manufacturing, and robotics, Xiaomi's long-term investment in underlying technologies is now ushering in systematic output and breakthroughs in multiple directions.

The Wuzhen Summit "Leading Technology Award" aims to reward the world's most leading internet technological achievements of the year. For the 2026 awards, more than 430 technological achievements from 43 countries and regions were collected, and 30 top domestic and international experts selected 20 finalists.

The technology for which Xiaomi won this award is "Key Technologies for a General-Purpose Robot Manipulation Foundation Model Oriented Toward Large-Scale Deployment," representing Xiaomi's core technological achievements in embodied models and large-scale applications. At present, this technology has been piloted on a small scale at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, achieving a "technology-product-scenario-data" closed loop in real scenarios.

Xiaomi has previously iterated two generations of embodied foundation models and carried out technical verification and practical applications in multiple industrial and home scenarios. The latest generation embodied foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1, was pretrained on 100,000 hours of real-world operation data, was the first in China to systematically verify the existence of the Scaling Law in the embodied intelligence field, and ranks first globally on authoritative evaluation leaderboards such as RoboCasa365 and RoboDojo. Dual breakthroughs in industrial manufacturing and home scenarios as Xiaomi Robotics discloses latest progress

During this summit, Xiaomi disclosed two latest deployment advances in robotics, demonstrating the latest exploration results of the Xiaomi robotics team in industrial manufacturing and home scenarios.

In the industrial manufacturing scenario, Xiaomi's humanoid robot completed initial verification of production-line-level operational capability. At the center console side cover panel sequencing workstation, it challenged an 8-hour work task for the first time, meeting the workstation's full-day production needs, and achieved autonomous correction of anomalies during operation and system-level coordination with the production line.

This result comes from a clear progression path. In March 2026, Xiaomi's humanoid robot first entered the Xiaomi automobile factory for an "internship," achieving 3 consecutive hours of autonomous operation at the self-tapping nut loading workstation, with a 90.2% success rate for bilateral installation, meeting the 76-second production line takt. In July, Xiaomi's robot increased its operation success rate at the self-tapping nut workstation to 98%, and added two complex workstations: center console side cover panel sequencing and collapsible material box recovery, achieving long-duration operation with flexible workpieces for the first time.

With the initial verification of production-line-level operational capability completed this time, the pace of Xiaomi Robotics' deployment in industrial manufacturing scenarios continues to accelerate, meaning that Xiaomi is continuously breaking through the technical bottlenecks for the popularization of humanoid robots in intelligent manufacturing scenarios, providing effective exploration for the large-scale application of general-purpose humanoid robots in the intelligent manufacturing field in the future.

In the home scenario, the embodied foundation model with Xiaomi-Robotics-1 as its core technology foundation has begun "trial operation" at Xiaomi Youth Apartments. Based on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, Xiaomi engineers used high-quality post-training data to carry out multiple rounds of iterative optimization and built an Agent closed-loop system covering data collection, model inference, and task execution.

The system has already run through long-horizon, multi-room task chains at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing long-horizon task verification lasting more than 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and including 50+ tasks, covering complete steps such as tool preparation, sofa and desktop tidying, garbage cleanup, item classification and return, room inspection, whole-home re-inspection, and departure.

From the factory to the apartment, Xiaomi Robotics is simultaneously advancing deployment verification in the two major scenarios of industrial manufacturing and home services under the support of the same batch of embodied foundation model technologies. The official launch of trial operation at Youth Apartments marks that Xiaomi's "technology-product-scenario-data" closed loop has officially been established in real-life scenarios, and also accumulates real operational data and engineering experience for embodied intelligence to enter home scenarios in the future.

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