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News at midday on October 26: During the 2026 Guacha Conference, HachimoDock, an open-source AI hardware device incubated by Xiaomi’s Technology Committee Innovative Products team, made its debut. This compact desktop AI device can be freely modified by users to suit their preferences, combining a personalized desktop pet, voice control of computer-based agents, smart-home integration, and the ability to create custom components.
According to the team, the hardware costs about 150 yuan to build yourself. The team hopes this will lower the barrier to trying AI hardware and make it the first AI device through which many people get started with Vibe Coding, experiencing the fun of using natural language to “create” a versatile desktop companion.
The device can do more: users can speak an idea and collaborate with AI to generate and run a new component on the spot. Thanks to this open approach, it can serve as a microphone for quick voice input, a mini game console with thousands of built-in games, a small radio for listening to FM stations, a secondary desktop display for checking AI task progress and computer status, or a desktop control hub connected to smart-home devices… Each user can create more uses for it themselves.
Users can interact with the desktop pet directly by voice. It translates their intentions into tasks and assigns them to computer-based agents such as Codex and WorkBuddy, for example to look up information, organize files, or write code. At the same time, the HachimoDock screen shows task states such as thinking, executing, and awaiting confirmation, and reports progress through the pet’s expressions and movements, brief prompts, and sound alerts. Important operations requiring authorization are still confirmed in the relevant client application.
HachimoDock’s voice controls also extend to the home. Through integration with Xiaomi Miloco, users can initiate home controls by voice, while the small screen can switch to a home control console showing device status, lighting controls, surveillance feeds, and other content. This lets one desktop device serve as an interface for both computer agents and the smart home.
HachimoDock’s software source code is now publicly available on GitHub, along with a hardware bill of materials, models for structural parts, and assembly instructions. Users can modify it however they wish. “We hope to leave the definition of HachimoDock to each person who uses it, so that more people can experience the joy of creating AI hardware at relatively low cost,” said the head of Xiaomi’s Technology Committee Innovative Products team.