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Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses vs Hey Pocket in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

Neither Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses nor Hey Pocket leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side.

Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price.

Attribute	No image on file Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses View full model page →	No image on file Hey Pocket View full model page →
Manufacturer	Baidu	Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)
Form factor	wearable	wearable
Maturity	commercial	commercial
Autonomy	—	—
Availability	shipping-nowshipping	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$304-$322 (manufacturer target) or $322 (actual sale price)	$99-$199 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	—
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	1Baidu	1Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)
Privacy practices	4biometric-storage, capture-indicator, training-data-use, third-party-sharing	9cloud-upload, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, bystander-recording, data-deletion-control, data-sale, data-retention, location-tracking, data-deletion-control
Sources on file	10	7

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Editorial summaries

Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses

The Baidu Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses are camera-and-audio AI glasses with no display (explicitly not AR glasses): 39 grams, titanium hinges, a Sony 12-megapixel camera (4K photo, 1440p/30fps video), a four-microphone array, and prescription-lens support, in Boston and Cat-Eye styles. They went on sale in China on November 11, 2025 via JD.com and Tmall at 2,299 yuan, roughly $322, with next-day delivery.

The AI is genuine and primary, built on Baidu's ERNIE large language model (first-person 'ask about what you see' Q&A, object and calorie recognition, encyclopedia lookup, audio and visual translation, reminders), and made via Baidu's Xiaodu Technology subsidiary; the assistant runs on ERNIE, not on Xiaomi's XiaoAI. They complete the Chinese consumer wearable-AI cohort alongside Xiaomi AI Glasses and the RayNeo V3.

Cap-flag: pricing is China-market CNY (the USD figure is a conversion) and the glasses are not officially sold outside China; the AI is cloud-dependent rather than on-device.

Hey Pocket

Hey Pocket, by Open Vision Engineering (San Francisco, a Y Combinator W26 company; CEO Akshay Narisetti previously built Omi), is a screenless AI voice recorder and 'thought companion'. The 52-gram device works standalone and MagSafe-attaches to the back of a phone, with dual studio microphones plus a contact microphone for calls and on-device storage, running multi-model cloud AI (routing across GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini) for transcription in 120+ languages, summaries, mind maps, action items, and an Ask-Pocket Q&A feature.

It sells for $99 at launch against a $199 regular price, with a free core and, distinctively, no subscription required (an optional Pocket Pro plan is $19.99 a month). DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity: a real, shipping product (live iOS and Android apps), not vaporware, and its AI substance is genuine. The editorial throughline is the no-subscription-core posture, a direct contrast to subscription-required rivals like Plaud.

Common questions

How do Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses and Hey Pocket differ?

Neither Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses nor Hey Pocket leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side. Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price.

What is the difference between Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses and Hey Pocket?

Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses and Hey Pocket are both wearable robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.

Which is cheaper, Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses or Hey Pocket?

Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Which has more verified deployments, Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses or Hey Pocket?

Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses and Hey Pocket each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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