Xiaomi's open-source AI hardware HachimoDock debuts, with a DIY cost of about 150 yuan

Xiaomi's Open-Source Hardware HachimoDock Debuts, Replicable for Just 150 Yuan

2026-10-26 12:53 Sina Tech - -

Thanks to IT Home user "A Different Experience" for the tip-off!

Noon news on October 26: During the 2026 Guancha Conference, HachimoDock, an open-source AI hardware incubated by Xiaomi Technology Committee's Innovative Products Team, made its debut — a desktop AI device that users can freely modify according to their personal preferences, with a compact body that integrates capabilities such as a personalized desktop pet, voice-controlled PC-side Agents, smart home integration, and custom component creation.

According to the introduction, the hardware self-build cost of HachimoDock is about 150 yuan. The team hopes to lower the threshold for experiencing AI hardware, making it the first AI hardware for the general public to get started with Vibe Coding and experience the fun of using natural language to "create" an all-purpose desktop companion.

The device's functions go beyond this: users can speak their ideas and collaborate with AI to generate and run new components on the spot. Based on this open mechanism, it can be a microphone for quick voice input, a mini game console with tens of thousands of built-in games, a small radio for listening to FM stations, or a desktop secondary screen for checking AI task progress and computer status, a desktop control hub linked with smart home devices... More ways to play are left for each user to create by hand.

Users can interact directly with the desktop pet via voice, and it will translate user intentions into various tasks and dispatch them to various Agents on the PC side such as Codex and WorkBuddy, for example looking up information, organizing files, writing code, etc. At the same time, the HachimoDock screen will also display task statuses such as thinking, executing, and waiting for confirmation in sync, and provide progress feedback through the desktop pet's expressions, movements, brief prompts, and sound alerts; important operations involving authorization are still confirmed by the corresponding client.

HachimoDock's voice operation also extends to home scenarios. Through integration with Xiaomi Miloco, users can initiate home control by voice, and the small screen can also switch to a home control console, displaying content such as device status, lighting control, and surveillance footage, making a single desktop device simultaneously an interaction entry point for PC Agents and smart homes.

Currently, HachimoDock has publicly released its software source code on GitHub, and provides a hardware bill of materials, structural component models, and assembly tutorials, so users can modify it freely according to their own ideas. "We hope to leave the space to define HachimoDock to every user, so that more people can experience the joy of AI hardware creation at a lower cost," said the head of Xiaomi Technology Committee's Innovative Products Team.