Xiaomi Wins Two Awards at World Internet Conference, Discloses Progress on Humanoid Robot Deployment in Factories and Apartments

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

During the summit, Xiaomi also disclosed two latest deployment advances for 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 the work process and system-level coordination with the production line, initially completing verification of production-line-level work 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 work capability is an important exploration of humanoid robots empowering intelligent manufacturing. "Xiaomi's uniqueness lies in the fact that its robotics business grows out 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 means Xiaomi Robotics has begun exploring home scenarios, which place higher demands on model generalization capability. One technology foundation simultaneously supporting both industrial and home scenarios shows that Xiaomi has established a positive cycle in which "scenarios define technology, and technology feeds back into scenarios."

Recognized with two awards at the Wuzhen Summit, Xiaomi Group's underlying technological innovation sees a systemic breakthrough

From November 2 to November 5, the 2026 World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. Xiaomi Group won the conference's "Outstanding Contribution Award," and the Xiaomi robotics team's key embodied foundation model technology won the conference's "Leading Science and 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 scientific and 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 systemic output and breakthroughs in multiple directions.

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

The technology for which Xiaomi won this time is "Key Technologies for a General-Purpose Robot Manipulation Foundation Model Oriented Toward Scaled Deployment," representing Xiaomi's core technological achievements in embodied models and scaled 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 manipulation 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, Xiaomi Robotics discloses latest progress

During this summit, Xiaomi disclosed two latest deployment advances for its robots, 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 work 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 the work process and system-level coordination with the production line.

This result comes from a clear progression path. In March 2026, Xiaomi's humanoid robot entered the Xiaomi automobile factory for an "internship" for the first time, achieving 3 consecutive hours of autonomous work 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, the success rate of Xiaomi's robot at the self-tapping nut workstation increased to 98%, and two complex workstations were added: center console side cover panel sequencing and collapsible container folding and recovery, achieving long-duration work with flexible workpieces for the first time.

With the initial completion of verification of production-line-level work capability 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 future scaled application of general-purpose humanoid robots in the intelligent manufacturing field.

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, and covering complete stages 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 apartments, 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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