Home charging without cables: Xiaomi showed a robot for electric cars

Automatic charging of electric vehicles at home is moving from fantasy to everyday reality. Xiaomi presented its new innovative development – a high-precision robotic arm designed for automated connection of cars to the power grid in residential conditions. The process promises to save car owners from having to fiddle with complex power cables.

The new home station is specially designed to create the most comfortable and simple conditions for recharging batteries during automatic car parking. The brand’s specialists showed a special promotional video in which the technological cycle is shown without the use of graphics and simulated directly in field household scenarios. The concept combines automated parking with instantaneous filling of the electricity supply in one go.

Three main use cases

The modern intelligent solution is focused on the full automation of all daily maintenance of the electric car thanks to the support of the following user modes:

• Lazy refueling mode: The car owner does not have to leave the cabin or open special flaps. At the moment when the autopilot has parked the car inside the parking sector, the robotic connector aligns with the help of cameras and makes a careful switch on its own.
• Protective auto-deactivation: The current supply to the battery pack will safely stop and the connector will automatically disconnect from the electric car outlet when the current status of the energy indicator restores the charge value to a full hundred percent or reaches a certain cut-off limit in the mobile software.
• Remote Start Initiation: While remotely, you can start the machine power procedure. The only condition is to find the car directly near the parking slot under the robot arm manipulator, after which the whole process is initiated by a simple remote click through your own mobile gadget.

Release date

Although the more precise capacity or weight parameters of the station remain a trade secret for now, the time intervals of output of the finished installation have already been approved. The smart home assistant from Xiaomi is expected to appear on retail platforms and the commercial car market approximately in the fourth quarter of 2026.