Midea Robot Screws Panels Onto 100,000 Washing Machines

Midea's six-arm MIRO U robot fastened screws onto washing machines in a factory.

It worked on 100,000 washing machines over three months.

The robot handles six back-panel screws in about 10 seconds.

Back-panel screws are part of assembling a washing machine, so the robot is doing a repeated factory task.

Guangdong reports more than 2,000 humanoid robots in factories, placing this work in a wider industrial context.

The figures show a robot carrying out assembly at scale, but no further plans for the machine are stated.