You Can Now Pre-order Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Robots

Hugging Face has launched a caller AI-powered robot called nan Reachy Mini. Described by its shaper successful a caller blog arsenic an "expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, imaginative coding, and AI experimentation," nan Reachy Mini is targeted astatine anyone pinch an liking successful this increasing section of robotics. Its various functions and behaviors tin beryllium coded successful Python, pinch support for JavaScript and Scratch owed to beryllium added later.

As you mightiness person guessed from nan name, nan Reachy Mini is simply a compact robot, measuring conscionable 28cm gangly and 16cm wide. This intends you tin easy spot it adjacent to your machine connected a desk, aliases nan room land while you cook. It comes successful variants: nan afloat autonomous Reachy Mini, which is powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 and tin tally wirelessly from a built-in battery; and nan wired-only Reachy Mini Lite, which presently only useful pinch Mac and Linux. Hugging Face notes nan Lite is still successful early development. It besides lacks nan accelerometer that nan pricier exemplary has.

Otherwise, some robots are broadly similar, pinch some featuring 2 animated antennas, afloat assemblage rotation and six degrees of caput movement, arsenic good arsenic a azygous wide-angle camera and a 5W speaker. They some person microphones, but nan Reachy Mini has four, while nan Lite has only two. They’re sold arsenic buildable kits that you combine yourself.

More than 15 demos tin beryllium accessed connected nan Hugging Face hub astatine launch, truthful you tin commencement messing astir consecutive away, and thing you programme yourself tin beryllium shared pinch nan Hugging Face organization (and vice versa), which nan institution says has much than 10 cardinal members.

Hugging Face is taking orders for nan $299 Reachy Mini Lite and $449 wireless Reachy Mini now, pinch nan erstwhile expected to vessel precocious summertime 2025, and nan much fully-featured exemplary rolling retired successful batches from autumn done 2026.