Xiaomi's open-source AI desktop pet HachimoDock debuts, with a DIY cost of about 150 yuan
HachimoDock, an open-source AI hardware incubated by Xiaomi's Technology Committee Innovative Products Team, officially debuted at the 2026 Guancha Conference in Hangzhou, with a hardware DIY cost of about 150 yuan. The device integrates an AI desktop pet, voice control of PC-side Agents, smart home integration, and custom component creation. Through voice, it can dispatch tasks such as looking up information, organizing files, and writing code to Agents including Codex and WorkBuddy, while the screen displays execution status in sync. The software source code is now public on GitHub, along with a hardware bill of materials, structural component models, and assembly tutorials, supporting self-replication and secondary development.
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Xiaomi open-sources desktop AI hardware, providing a DIY cost of about 150 yuan and a complete bill of materials, which can be used to gauge the barrier to replicating low-cost AI hardware.
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On October 26, it was announced that recently, at the 2026 Guancha Conference held in Hangzhou, HachimoDock, an open-source AI hardware incubated by Xiaomi Technology Committee's Innovative Products Team, was officially unveiled. According to the introduction, the product is a desktop AI device that supports personalized modification, integrating features such as an AI desktop pet, voice-controlled PC-side Agents, smart home integration, and custom component creation, with a hardware self-build cost of about 150 yuan.
HachimoDock adopts a retro mini game console design, equipped with a screen, buttons, a joystick, and voice interaction capabilities. Users can use voice to assign tasks such as searching for information, organizing files, and writing code to PC-side Agents like Codex and WorkBuddy, while the device screen synchronously displays task execution status and provides progress feedback through the desktop pet's expressions, movements, and sounds. Important operations involving authorization still need to be confirmed in the corresponding client.
In terms of personalization, HachimoDock comes with a built-in West Highland White Terrier desktop pet image, and users can also upload pet photos, avatars, or original characters to customize the desktop pet's name, persona, and voice. Multiple devices also support desktop pet interaction, and users can replace hardware components such as keycaps and mechanical keyboard switches according to their preferences.
In addition, HachimoDock supports collaboration with Coding
Agents through natural language to achieve minute-level personalized component creation. Users can develop and run components such as to-do lists, computer status monitoring, Token usage dashboards, weather reminders, FM radio, and mini-games themselves, and can also import works by other developers from the community.
In smart home scenarios, HachimoDock can integrate with Xiaomi Miloco to enable voice control of home devices and display device status, lighting control, and surveillance footage on the screen.
According to the introduction, HachimoDock has currently made its software source code public on GitHub, and also provides a hardware bill of materials, structural component models, and assembly tutorials, supporting users in replicating and further developing it themselves. Xiaomi Technology Committee's Innovative Products Team stated that it hopes to lower the threshold for AI development and experience through low-cost open-source hardware, allowing more users to participate in AI hardware creation through Vibe
Coding.