Xiaomi's factory intern robot achieves 98% on nut assembly, over 90% on two new tasks
ETNews details Xiaomi's humanoid running three concrete production tasks - the embodied race gets a China-side number breakdown.
Jul 19, 2026 at 16:34 9 11
Xiaomi's factory intern robot: 98% task-success rate in an EV plant, quietly
The humanoid robot "intern" from Xiaomi operates in an electric vehicle factory with a reported success rate of 98%. A modest industrial data point - and precisely because it is modest, it matters.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:37 10 9
Xiaomi opens Robotics-U0: a unified embodied 38B model, open source
Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 6 10
« Loop engineering »: new discipline or cron job rebranding?
The term is on the rise, the Pragmatic Engineer investigation concludes to a mix of triggers, cron jobs, and LLM slop. A real underlying question remains: who possesses the robustness of an observe-decide-act loop powered by LLM?
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 27 7
Delegating a task or delegating one's thought: where is the line?
The right question is not "automate work or thought". It is: automate tasks, or give up deciding what we want.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 6 9