Xiaomi Discloses Dual-Track Robot Progress: Long-Duration Operations at Auto Factory and Trial Operation at Youth Apartments
At the 2026 World Internet Conference, Xiaomi received the "Outstanding Contribution Award" in the innovation breakthrough category; its "Key Technologies for a General Robot Manipulation Foundation Model Oriented Toward Large-Scale Deployment" won the "Leading Science and Technology Award," and it shared two robot developments. In the industrial manufacturing scenario, the new-generation Xiaomi robot, at the center console side cover panel sequencing workstation in an auto factory, took on 8-hour long-duration operations for the first time, meeting the workstation's full-day production needs and achieving autonomous anomaly correction and system-level coordination with the production line. In the home scenario, Xiaomi's embodied foundation model began trial operation at Xiaomi Youth Apartments; built on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, it establishes an Agent closed-loop system covering data collection, model inference, and task execution, and can complete a long-duration, multi-room complex task chain lasting over 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms, and including more than 50 tasks. Xiaomi stated that its total R&D investment from 2021 to 2025 reached 105.5 billion yuan, with full-year R&D investment in 2025 at 33.1 billion yuan, up 37.8% year on year; it plans to invest more than 200 billion yuan over the next five years, with expected investment in AI exceeding 60 billion yuan over the next three years.
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Xiaomi has disclosed the implementation progress of its robots along two tracks—at an auto factory and at youth apartments—offering a view of how general-purpose robots are moving from workstation validation toward long-duration, complex tasks.
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On November 3, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Internet Conference, Xiaomi Group was awarded the conference's "Outstanding Contribution Award" in the innovation breakthrough category. At the same time, Xiaomi's robotics business, "Key Technologies for a General-Purpose Robot Operation Foundation Model for Large-Scale Deployment," received the conference's "Leading Science and Technology Award." With the award for Xiaomi Robotics' key embodied model technologies, Xiaomi also shared with the outside world two of its latest advances in robotics: In the industrial manufacturing scenario, the new-generation Xiaomi robot, at the center console side cover panel sequencing workstation in an automobile factory, took on 8-hour long-duration operation for the first time, meeting the workstation's all-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 has begun "trial operation" at Xiaomi Youth Apartments. Based on the Xiaomi-Robotics-1 pretrained model, it has built an Agent closed-loop system covering data collection, model inference, and task execution. At present, it can complete long-duration, multi-room complex task chains lasting more than 30 consecutive minutes, covering 3 rooms and including more than 50 tasks. Xiaomi stated that from 2021 to 2025, the company's total R&D investment reached 105.5 billion yuan, of which full-year R&D investment in 2025 was 33.1 billion yuan, up 37.8% year on year; it plans to invest more than 200 billion yuan over the next five years, and is expected to invest more than 60 billion yuan in AI over the next three years, with key focus on frontier fields such as AI large models, embodied intelligence, and intelligent manufacturing.