3 Hours Of Autonomous Operations

The Chinese tech giant shared that the humanoid robots it deployed successfully achieved 3 hours of autonomous operations, placing self-tapping nuts in the die-casting workshop, CnEVPost reported on Monday, citing a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo by Xiaomi.

The robots achieved a 90.2% success rate at the task, the report said. Xiaomi is reportedly considering other applications for its robots, which incorporate a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) approach combined with reinforcement learning.

The report also cited Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, who, in a post on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, predicted that the tech company would see more humanoid robots being deployed at its production facilities in the next five years.

Robotics And Chinese Auto Makers

Tesla's Optimus, Boston Dynamics' Atlas

Musk had also shared plans to establish an Optimus Academy to train the robot by using Tesla’s reality generator. The Optimus academy would help Tesla train the robots using the same technology it uses for Full Self-Driving (FSD) training.

Boston Dynamics says Atlas is capable of lifting objects weighing up to 110 lbs and can function smoothly in temperature ranges from -4° to 104° F. It also boasts the capability of replicating a task learned by a single unit to the entire fleet.

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