Reachy Mini is a package deal for a compact, open-source robotic designed explicitly for AI experimentation and human interaction. The package deal is obtainable from Hugging Face, which is itself a repository and web internet hosting service for machine learning fashions. Reachy seems to be one among their efforts at branching out from pure software program program.
Reachy Mini is supposed as a development platform, allowing people to make and share fashions for varied behaviors, subsequently the Hugging Face integration to make that less complicated. On the inside of the whole mannequin is a Raspberry Pi, and we suspect some sort of Stewart Platform is accountable for the movement of the head. There’s moreover a cheaper (299 USD) “lite” mannequin meant for tethered use, and a deliberate simulator to allow development and testing with out entry to a bodily Reachy the least bit.
Reachy has a selected head and face, so should you occur to’re contemplating it appears acquainted that’s perhaps because of we first coated Reachy the humanoid robotic as a mission from Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025.)
The thought behind the smaller Reachy Mini seems to be to supply a platform to experiment with expressive human communication by cameras and audio, fairly than to be the type of robotic that strikes spherical and manipulates objects.
It’s nonetheless early throughout the mission, so should you want to know further you’ll uncover a bit further particulars about Reachy Mini at Pollen’s web site and you may even see Reachy Mini switch in a quick video, embedded just below.
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