Xiaomi has unveiled its next generation humanoid robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference after putting it through four months of real world training inside its electric vehicle factory. The prototype, named Tieda, stands around 1.70 meters tall, weighs 66kg, and has 66 degrees of freedom across its body, with half of those, or 33, concentrated in its hands to support more precise manipulation.
During its factory training, Xiaomi reported that the robot’s success rate for dual side self-tapping nut installation improved from 90.2 percent to 98 percent, placing it just one percentage point below the 99 percent qualification rate expected of human workers performing the same task. The company also reported a 90 percent success rate for sorting center console side panels and another 90 percent success rate for folding and recycling material bins. The robot previously demonstrated three hours of continuous operation at the nut installation workstation while meeting the factory’s 76 second production line cycle requirement. According to Xiaomi, the newer tasks assigned to the robot are more complicated because they involve large, irregular and flexible components, requiring the robot to bend forward, reach into a container, transfer the panel between its hands, adjust its grip and place the part into the correct position, all performed autonomously rather than through a fixed sequence of pre-programmed actions.
The robot’s capabilities are powered by Xiaomi’s broader robotics AI work, which builds on Xiaomi-Robotics-0, the company’s open source Vision Language Action model. The 4.7 billion parameter model combines visual and language understanding with action generation and is designed for real time robotic operation, with Xiaomi having released its model checkpoints, inference tools and post training code publicly. The company has also released Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38 billion parameter autoregressive world foundation model designed for embodied AI and robot training data generation, reflecting a broader investment in the underlying AI systems needed to support more advanced robotics development.
The humanoid robot forms part of Xiaomi’s wider investment in AI, electric vehicles and advanced technology, with the company spending around 9.2 billion yuan, or approximately 1.4 billion dollars, on research and development during the second quarter of 2026, up 18.9 percent from a year earlier. Nearly half of Xiaomi’s employees, or 47.2 percent, now work in research and development roles. Despite these advances, Xiaomi is not yet preparing to sell Tieda to consumers, with the company describing the humanoid robot as remaining at the prototype and internal validation stage. Xiaomi President Lu Weibing has said large scale commercialization remains some distance away, with the company currently focused on deploying robots in areas such as smart factories before eventually extending the technology to its broader Human, Car, Home ecosystem. For now, the primary goal remains improving factory efficiency while building the underlying technology needed for more capable humanoid robots in the future.
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