Xiaomi reports 98% success rate for factory humanoid task

Xiaomi says a humanoid robot working inside its automotive factory has reached a 98% success rate at a self tapping nut loading station after four months of iteration, according to TechNode, citing Jiemian.

The company said the same task previously ran at 90.2% success, and that the latest figure narrows the gap with human workers’ qualification rate to one percentage point. Xiaomi did not name the robot model in the report, nor did it provide cycle time, uptime, autonomy level, or the number of parts handled.

The Xiaomi humanoid robot has also been assigned two additional factory jobs: center console side panel sorting and parts bin folding and recycling. Both are reported at 90% success rates. For an automotive line, those are still early performance figures, but the mix of handling, sorting, and recycling work is more informative than a staged walking or object carrying demo.

Xiaomi also claimed the center console side panel sorting station is the first case of a humanoid robot performing long duration continuous operations on flexible workpieces in an automotive factory. That is a specific and useful claim, if independently substantiated, because flexible parts remain a difficult class of factory manipulation for general purpose humanoid systems.

Source: technode.com