Midea's six-arm MIRO U robot fastened screws on 100,000 washing machines in three months

Midea's six-arm humanoid MIRO U has worked for over three months at its washing machine plant in Wuxi, fastening back-panel screws on 100,000 machines. In a lab demo it drove six screws in about 10 seconds with a reported 99.8% task success rate.

• MIRO U drives six screws in roughly 10 seconds
• Reported task success rate stands at 99.8%
• Over 2,000 humanoids were deployed in Guangdong factories by September
• Guangdong produced 336,300 industrial robots in 2025, 43.5% of China's total