{
  "id": 18217,
  "url": "https://technode.com/2026/08/10/former-bytedance-robotics-head-reportedly-joins-xiaomi",
  "title": "Former ByteDance robotics head reportedly joins Xiaomi",
  "summary": "Former ByteDance robotics team head Kong Tao has reportedly joined Xiaomi, where he now leads a team developing foundation models for robots. Several people familiar with the matter said Kong joined Xiaomi in 2025 and brought a number of former ByteDance colleagues with him. Xiaomi’s robotics division is said to have about 200 employees, while […]",
  "authors": "TechNode Feed",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "bytedance",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T07:22:38.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-technode-cn",
  "source_name": "TechNode (CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://technode.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18217",
  "original_url": "https://technode.com/2026/08/10/former-bytedance-robotics-head-reportedly-joins-xiaomi",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}