Xiaomi had a busy Thursday. It revealed a brand new slimmer foldable smartphone to go up in opposition to Samsung’s just-announced Galaxy Z Fold 4, then made that seem boring when its personal humanoid robotic prototype walked on stage. The Xiaomi CyberOne is 177cm (5.8 ft) tall, weighs 52kg (115 kilos) and is, apparently, a Leo. It comes earlier than Tesla’s humanoid imaginative and prescient arrived as a real-world prototype. But there’s some particular model overlap.

The CyberOne is the second product out of the Xiaomi Robotics Lab, after the CyberDog from August 2021. The humanoid machine has a face within the type of a curved OLED panel, it could actually see the world in 3D and listen to with two microphones to determine “85 types of environmental sounds and 45 classifications of human emotion.” I don’t assume I even have that emotional vary. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun mentioned every CyberOne would value between 600,000 and 700,000 yuan (about $89,100 to $104,000), so it will be someday earlier than the robots hit mass manufacturing, if ever.

— Mat Smith

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