{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-xiaomi-robotics-1/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-xiaomi-robotics-1/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-07-16-xiaomi-robotics-1","date":"2026-07-16","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a VLA trained on 100K+ hours of real trajectories","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"open-source","category_label":"Open source","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"arXiv 2607.15330: Xiaomi-Robotics-1","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15330","type":"paper","group":"primary","domain":"arxiv.org"},{"n":2,"title":"GitHub: XiaomiRobotics/Xiaomi-Robotics-1","url":"https://github.com/XiaomiRobotics/Xiaomi-Robotics-1","type":"code","group":"primary","domain":"github.com"},{"n":3,"title":"Hugging Face: Xiaomi-Robotics-1-5B","url":"https://huggingface.co/XiaomiRobotics/Xiaomi-Robotics-1-5B","type":"code","group":"primary","domain":"huggingface.co"}],"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Xiaomi"],"title":"Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a VLA trained on 100K+ hours of real trajectories","summary":"Xiaomi published Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on 2026-07-16, a 5B vision-language-action model pretrained on over 100K hours of real-world UMI manipulation trajectories and post-trained on 10K+ hours of cross-embodiment data; weights (Apache-2.0) followed on Hugging Face on 2026-07-28 with top open results on RoboCasa365 and VLABench.","key_facts":["Data: 100K+ hours real-world UMI trajectories (pretraining) + 10K+ hours cross-embodiment robot data (post-training)","RoboCasa 74.5%, RoboCasa365 57.4%, VLABench 59.1% (authors' comparison tables)","Open weights: XiaomiRobotics/Xiaomi-Robotics-1-5B (Apache-2.0); code released 2026-08-03","Paper reports strong scaling with data and model size"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["vla","robotics","open-weights","china","scaling-laws"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nXiaomi's robotics team released one of the largest real-data-trained open VLAs, following Xiaomi-Robotics-0 (Feb 2026).\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt makes a 100K-hour-scale robot model openly available, narrowing the data gap between closed US labs and open Chinese releases.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0/","date":"2026-09-10","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model","deck":null,"takeaway":"The world's highest-volume humanoid maker now ships an openly licensed foundation model for its own robots, lowering the barrier for G1 developers.","category":"open-source","category_label":"Open source","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Unitree Robotics"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[{"id":"xiaomi-robotics-1","name":"Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (XR-1, 5B)","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/xiaomi-robotics-1/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":77,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":16,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":107,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":46,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}