sf has this weird thing where the more funding a robotics startup has, the less likely their robot has ever touched a real object in an uncontrolled environment. inverse correlation between valuation and hours of real-world deployment. somebody should graph this.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 just dropped on Hugging Face 🔥
A robot foundation model trained on 100,000 hours of real-world manipulation.
They turned it loose in a real apartment: folding laundry, loading the washer, doing the dishes, packing a suitcase. Fully autonomous.
Ungloved, the new 1X hand looks beautiful.
25 DoF, tendon-driven, force-controlled, tactile sensing, IP68 sealed, ±0.2mm positioning accuracy.
1X has already described NEO as being built in America’s most vertically integrated humanoid robot factory, and that strategy shows up here too; every hand is built end-to-end in-house, from tendon materials and 1X Motors to soft polymers, skin and tactile sensing.
They have stated hundreds have already come off the line, with capacity for 10,000 hands this year.