Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said Xiaomi’s humanoid robots have begun trial operations at its automobile factory, with plans to deploy large numbers of the machines across its production facilities within the next five years. In a social media post, Lei said the company’s robotics unit has made progress based on its general-purpose vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-0. By integrating multimodal perception and reinforcement learning technologies, the humanoid robot has initially achieved autonomous operations in tasks such as loading self-tapping nuts at assembly stations and transporting material boxes.