Details of Xiaomi’s next-generation humanoid have leaked via the Daily Economic News: about 1.70 metres tall, 66 kilograms, with 66 degrees of freedom, and half of those in the hands. The company plans to show it publicly for the first time at the 2026 World Robotics Conference, which opens on 19 August, before taking it to Europe.
Founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun has said Xiaomi’s robot already completed a four-month internship at the car factory with real results. On a self-tapping nut station it lifted two-sided operation success from 90.2 per cent to 98 per cent, and reached 90 per cent on centre-console panel fitting and box folding, the first time it sustained long-duration work on flexible parts.
Xiaomi set up the humanoid programme internally in 2020, first shipping the CyberDog quadruped to bank the underlying tech, then unveiling the full-size CyberOne in August 2022 with bipedal walking and emotion sensing as a validation prototype that was never mass-produced. The team has since iterated hardware and control, upgrading dexterous hands, balance and multi-robot coordination.
President Lu Weibing was clear that Xiaomi will not build robots as a standalone business. It will fold them into the human-car-home ecosystem, coordinating across smart factories, mobility and the home. The question for Western observers is what a consumer-electronics giant with its own factories and retail footprint does to the humanoid cost curve once it treats the robot as one more connected device.
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Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://robot.ofweek.com/2026-08/ART-898890-8220-30699162.html.