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Daniel Samer
Daniel Samer

Posted on • Originally published at clawhosters.com

Baidu Put OpenClaw in Smart Speakers. The Rest of the World Cannot Have It.

A Baidu employee walked on stage in Beijing, spoke a voice command to a Xiaodu smart speaker, and ordered a hot Americano from McDonalds. No screen. No app switching. The OpenClaw agent handled everything.

Baidu unveiled four products in their "lobster family":

  • DuMate for desktop
  • RedClaw for mobile
  • Xiaodu for smart speakers (a first)
  • DuClaw for managed cloud hosting (~$2.50/month)

DuClaw validates the managed hosting model. No server setup, no API key juggling, no debugging Docker at midnight.

The catch: China only. Chinese LLMs only. No Claude, no GPT, no Gemini.

Full breakdown:

https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/baidu-openclaw-smart-speakers-lobster-family

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