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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (IT Home · Nov 7, 2026)

Xiaomi Auto, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute to unveil CMF results Nov 11

KEY FACTS

  • Xiaomi Auto and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute will release the results of their university-industry CMF collaboration on November 11 at 14:00 at the institute's Huxi campus.
  • The two sides launched the "Folk Art Reborn" project on March 22 this year, focused on integrating local aesthetics with automotive CMF.
  • The collaboration uses a co-built "CMF micro-major" model, recruiting students from across the entire institute.
  • Xiaomi's design team and institute faculty co-designed the curriculum and provide in-depth weekly mentoring to students.
  • Winning student proposals will receive support for physical model production.

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

By pushing CMF R&D upstream into art-school classrooms, automakers are seeking differentiation for increasingly homogenized EV exteriors. Bringing traditional folk art into car design sounds appealing, but mass-production feasibility and cost control are the real tests. For users, what is worth watching is whether these proposals actually make it onto vehicles, rather than remaining graduation-show models.

Source: IT Home report