Buying guide
r1 vs Xiaomi AI Glasses in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, Xiaomi AI Glasses is further along: at the commercial stage versus r1 at the pilot stage, as of 2026.
- r1 has the lower recorded price.
- r1 is at the pilot stage; Xiaomi AI Glasses at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Rabbit Inc | Xiaomi |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | pilot | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $199 (actual sale price) | $278-$417 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Rabbit Inc | 1Xiaomi |
| Privacy practices | 10location-tracking, cloud-upload, data-retention, third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, data-sale, location-tracking, data-sale, data-deletion-control, data-retention | 8location-tracking, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, data-retention, cloud-upload, data-deletion-control, data-sale, on-device-processing |
| Sources on file | 12 | 11 |
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Editorial summaries
r1
The Rabbit r1 is a $199 pocket AI companion device, unveiled at CES in January 2024 and still shipping into 2026, with no subscription. Its editorial throughline is the gap between demo and product: the launch demonstration of a Large Action Model (LAM) completing agentic tasks outran what the shipping product has consistently delivered.
Rabbit has shipped software updates since launch, but consistent agentic task completion is not verified. DEPLOY classifies its maturity as pilot.
Xiaomi AI Glasses
Xiaomi AI Glasses, by Xiaomi Corporation, are camera-and-audio AI glasses with no display, positioned as a direct Ray-Ban Meta competitor and built around the XiaoAI voice assistant. Launched at Xiaomi's Human x Car x Home event on June 26, 2025 (China-only), they carry a 12-megapixel camera with 2K 30fps stabilized video, a Qualcomm AR1 chip, and about 8.6 hours of battery (45-minute recharge), priced from 1,999 yuan (roughly $278) for the base model up to 2,999 yuan (roughly $417) for the color-electrochromic version, with voice capture, object recognition, translation, and QR and visual-scan contactless payment.
DEPLOY records commercial mass-market maturity: 50,000 units sold in the first three days and the lead in China's AI-glasses share at 31.9 percent in 2025, ahead of Rokid and Alibaba. The AI is primary and genuine (XiaoAI), though cloud-dependent rather than on-device. Two cap-flags: pricing is China-market CNY (USD figures are conversions), and forward sales targets (such as five million units by 2027) are projections, not verified sales. Recorded under a Xiaomi Corporation consumer entity distinct from the Xiaomi Robotics division that makes the CyberOne humanoid.
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