Xiaomi's humanoid just worked a full 8-hour shift on the EV line
Sorting center console side panels at Xiaomi's EV plant, the second-generation CyberOne ran a full shift — up from three hours in March.
Xiaomi's humanoid robot has completed a full 8-hour shift on a production line, sorting center console side panels at the company's EV plant in Beijing. Xiaomi disclosed the milestone on November 3 at the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, where its robotics work also won the conference's Leading Technology Award. It is the longest continuous production stint the company has reported for its humanoid: a full shift at one station, with the robot correcting its own errors and keeping pace with the line's systems.
The station is the center console side panel sorting post in the final assembly shop. Xiaomi says the robot handled the full workflow — sorting parts, placing them in order, checking its own work and fixing errors — while staying in step with the production line. The company calls it a preliminary validation that the humanoid can hold a production-line job, not just perform a demo task.
The progression is the story. In March 2026 the robot first entered the plant and worked three hours continuously installing self-tapping nuts, at 90.2% success on dual-side installation. By July, nut installation had reached 98%, and the robot had added panel sorting and material-box folding. The 8-hour shift completes that arc: from a three-hour trial to a full shift at a station that needs a robot all day.
The same disclosure covered the home. An Agent system built on Xiaomi's Xiaomi-Robotics-1 foundation model has begun a trial at Xiaomi Youth Apartments, completing a continuous task of more than 30 minutes across three rooms and over 50 subtasks — preparing tools, tidying sofas and desks, clearing trash and sorting items. The model was pre-trained on 100,000 hours of real-world operation data.
The robot is Xiaomi's second-generation CyberOne, unveiled at the World Robot Conference in Beijing in August after four months in the plant, and it runs on Xiaomi's self-developed vision-language-action model. Two honest caveats: the 8-hour figure is Xiaomi-reported, and the factory video is timelapse footage — the shift is real, the clip is sped up. Xiaomi executive Lu Weibing has said humanoids remain some distance from mass commercialization, and the company does not sell the robot as a product. The test is no longer whether a humanoid can do a factory job, but whether it can hold one for a whole shift.