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, known as Tieda, stands around 1.70 meters tall, weighs 66kg, and has 66 degrees of freedom across its body. Half of those, or 33, are concentrated in its hands to support more precise manipulation.
Four Months of Factory Training
Xiaomi says the robot’s success rate for dual-side self-tapping nut installation improved from 90.2% to 98% during its factory training.
That puts it just one percentage point below the 99% qualification rate for human workers. Xiaomi also reported a 90% success rate for sorting center-console side panels and another 90% 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.
The newer tasks are more complicated because they involve large, irregular, and flexible components. For center-console panels, the robot bends forward, reaches into a container, transfers the panel between its hands, adjusts its grip and places the part into the correct position.
Xiaomi says the robot makes these movements autonomously rather than following a fixed sequence of pre-programmed actions.
Powered by Xiaomi’s Robotics AI
The company’s robotics work builds on Xiaomi-Robotics-0, its 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. Xiaomi has released its model checkpoints, inference tools, and post-training code publicly.
Xiaomi has also released Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter autoregressive world foundation model designed for embodied AI and robot-training data generation.
Xiaomi Is Spending More on AI and Robotics
The robot forms part of Xiaomi’s wider investment in AI, electric vehicles and advanced technology.
Xiaomi spent around 9.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) on research and development during Q2 2026, up 18.9% from a year earlier. Nearly half of the company’s employees, or 47.2%, now work in R&D.
However, Xiaomi is not preparing to sell Tieda to consumers yet.
The company says the humanoid robot remains at the prototype and internal-validation stage. Xiaomi President Lu Weibing has said large-scale commercialization is still some distance away, with the company currently focusing on using robots in areas such as smart factories and eventually its broader Human × Car × Home ecosystem.
For now, the main goal is improving factory efficiency while building the technology needed for more capable humanoid robots in the future.
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