Xiaomi humanoid works 8-hour factory shift, but skeptics say a hidden gantry does the job 200x faster and 50x cheaper

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-04

Xiaomi showed its full-size humanoid robot doing an 8-hour shift at a center-console side-cover sorting station in its auto factory, claiming autonomous anomaly detection and coordination with the production line.

But Matt Parlmer pushes back sharply: he argues such demos are a "psyop" to trick Western robotics companies into putting humanoids in factories, while the actual work in the Xiaomi plant is done by a gantry with a wrist kept out of frame — roughly 200x faster and 50x cheaper.

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Xiaomi humanoid works 8-hour factory shift, but skeptics say a hidden gantry does the job 200x faster and 50x cheaper

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