Xiaomi company announced about opening the source code of its fundamental model Xiaomi-Robotics-1, designed for robotic systems. Developers gained access not only to the model itself, but also to a full set of tools for its training, evaluation, and deployment.
This step demonstrates Xiaomi's desire to become more actively involved in the development of an open robotics ecosystem, where universal AI models capable of working with different types of robots are becoming increasingly important.
Over 100 thousand hours of training data
According to the company, the model underwent two-stage training.
At the first stage, the following were used:
- over 100,000 hours of real-world robotic operations data from the UMI dataset.
After that, additional training was carried out on:
- more than 10,000 hours of cross-platform (cross-embodiment) data obtained from robots of various types.
This approach allows the model to adapt to different hardware platforms without the need for complete retraining.
What's included in the open release
Xiaomi has opened up almost the entire cycle of work with the model.
The package includes:
- Xiaomi-Robotics-1 model;
- post-training code on real jobs;
- deployment tools;
- code for performance evaluation;
- support for benchmarks to compare results.
This way, developers can recreate the entire process — from pre-training to running the model on their own robotics platform.
How Xiaomi-Robotics-1 works
The model uses a two-stage learning architecture.
Previous training
At the first stage, the system forms a universal idea of the performance of robotic actions.
The model receives:
- visual observation of the scene;
- text description of the task.
After that, it predicts the sequence of actions required to move from the current state to the desired outcome.
Post-training
The second stage allows you to adapt the fundamental model to specific types of robots and practical usage scenarios.
It is thanks to this that Xiaomi claims that the model can be used practically “out of the box”.
Where is the project available?
The company has already opened the official project resources:
- official Badageoni website Xiaomi Robotics;
- repository on GitHub;
- collection page on Hugging Face.
All the necessary materials are already available to researchers and developers.
Why is this important?
The opening of Robotics-1 is part of a global trend where major technology companies are making fundamental AI models for robotics open source.
This approach allows:
- accelerate research;
- simplify the adaptation of models to new robots;
- to form a single ecosystem of tools for training robotic systems.
HiTech Expert Take
The discovery of Xiaomi-Robotics-1 is a much more important event than just the publication of another AI model. If large language models have become a universal platform for working with text, then fundamental models for robotics can play a similar role in the physical world, providing robots with the ability to perceive their environment, interpret commands, and perform complex sequences of actions.
The decision is particularly telling. Xiaomi publish not only the weights of the model, but also the full cycle of its use - from pre-training to deployment on real devices. This lowers the barrier to entry for researchers, universities and startups and can accelerate the development of an open robotics ecosystem. Against the background of growing competition between OpenAI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and Chinese AI companies, open models are increasingly becoming the catalyst for the emergence of new generations of universal robots.
