Xiaomi Humanoid Robot Sorts Flexible Parts on Auto Production Line
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Picking up and sorting flexible covers at a Xiaomi auto plant with a humanoid and a semi-humanoid. 100k hours of pretraining data for this was supposedly provided by GenRobot as well. Evidence of how you can scale data and robot deployments now for real deployments.
One of the toughest challenges for robots in factories is handling large, irregular, flexible parts reliably over long periods. Here is an uncut video of Xiaomi's humanoid robot continuously sorting center console side covers on the production line.
This is also the same task we have seen from Boston Dynamics and Figure in the past (though the BD version was rigid, iirc, and therefore a lot easier). It seems there just aren't that many manipulation tasks being deployed at scale on humanoids - passage reorientation (figure, robotera) - box packing (pi, generalist, ultra...) - clothes folding (too many to list) - engine covers (bd, figure, xiaomi, ...) - rigid body pick and place (again too many)
One of the toughest challenges for robots in factories is handling large, irregular, flexible parts reliably over long periods. Here is an uncut video of Xiaomi's humanoid robot continuously sorting center console side covers on the production line.
One last note: Xiaomi also reported that the robot's older task, loading self-tapping nuts, improved from 90.2% to 98% success rate after four months. Gives you an idea, perhaps, of why there are so few tasks being explored. Each is a huge time investment still!
This is also the same task we have seen from Boston Dynamics and Figure in the past (though the BD version was rigid, iirc, and therefore a lot easier). It seems there just aren't that many manipulation tasks being deployed at scale on humanoids - passage reorientation (figure, robotera) - box packing (pi, generalist, ultra...) - clothes folding (too many to list) - engine covers (bd, figure, xiaomi, ...) - rigid body pick and place (again too many)