The robot is being presented alongside Xiaomi’s broader AI, automotive and smart-home technology at the company’s first appearance at IFA. Xiaomi has built a 3,300-square-meter exhibition space in Berlin featuring more than 380 products and technologies.
More importantly, Xiaomi is using the event to show progress from its humanoid testing program inside its own electric vehicle factory.
The company began testing humanoid robots on its EV production line earlier this year. In March, Xiaomi reported that a robot had operated autonomously for three consecutive hours at a self-piercing nut workstation, achieving a 90.2% success rate while meeting the line’s fastest 76-second production cycle.
After four months of testing and system improvements, Xiaomi said success on the fastening task had increased to 98%.
The robots have also moved into more difficult manufacturing work. Xiaomi has tested them sorting flexible center-console components and folding returnable material boxes, with both tasks reaching approximately 90% success rates.
The flexible-parts task requires the robot to perform multiple pick-and-place operations while coordinating both arms and adjusting objects in-hand. Xiaomi says the robots can respond to problems such as parts becoming caught or misaligned during the process.
The factory work forms part of Xiaomi’s broader push into embodied AI. The company has developed its own robotics models, including the 4.7-billion-parameter Xiaomi-Robotics-0 vision-language-action model, which it open-sourced earlier this year.
At IFA, the humanoid is also performing simpler public demonstrations including hand gestures and interactions with visitors. Xiaomi has not announced plans to commercially sell the robot.
The company plans to invest more than RMB 200 billion across AI, operating systems, semiconductors, electric vehicles, robotics and smart manufacturing between 2026 and 2030.
