Xiaomi has restructured its AI around the MiMo base model, splitting the technology behind its decade-old voice assistant XiaoAI into three pillars: the MiMo base-model team led by Luo Fuli, the cloud engineering team led by Luan Jian, and the on-device OS capability pushed down into the phone and car teams. The move signals that … Read more
Xiaomi has released and open-sourced Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, which it calls the first unified generative model for embodied AI, and the bottleneck it targets is the one everyone agrees on but few have solved: robot training data. Language models drank from the internet; robots have no equivalent “physical-world internet.” Useful data, vision, action and state together, mostly … Read more
The shift at WAIC 2026 was not in any single product but in the script. Past editions debated what humanoid robots were even for. This year the answer was stacked on the booths: humanoids moving totes in warehouses around the clock, picking among 3,000 pharmacy SKUs, putting a Coke in the fridge and a dirty … Read more
Sudo, a robotics startup barely a year old and already carrying a valuation around 20 billion yuan, used its WAIC debut to argue that the path to general-purpose physical intelligence is not more isolated demos but accumulating atomic skills. On the booth, more than ten capabilities ran at once, grasping unseen objects, two-hand cloth wrapping, … Read more
At WAIC 2026, a booth drawing some of the biggest crowds belonged to Force Machine, a startup that assembled a 3.5-metre-long model of the Great Wall from nearly 82,000 tiny Lego bricks, using four desktop arms and two wheeled Apex robots working for 15 hours straight. The smallest components were under a centimetre wide; the … Read more
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In July 2026, the Nubia NaviX Ultra drew a crowd at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. The phone has a plainer name: the Doubao Phone 2. Eight months earlier, the first Doubao Phone sold 30,000 units at 3,499 yuan and briefly resold for nearly 8,000 on the second-hand market, until the frenzy lasted … Read more