Reachy Mini - The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders

Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders

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Tiny price, small size, huge possibilities. Code, learn, share with AI builders of all ages, all around the globe.

Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation. Fully programmable in Python (and soon JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299 , it's your gateway into robotics AI: fun, customizable, and ready to be part of your next coding project. Whether you're an AI developer, hacker, researcher, teacher, robot enthusiast, or just coding with your kids on the weekend, Reachy Mini lets you develop, test, deploy, and share real-world AI applications from your desk, using the latest AI models!

🔩 Robot technical info

Reachy Mini measures 11“/28cm in height and 6.3“/16cm in width (approximately 9“/23cm tall when in sleep mode) and weighs 3.3 lbs/1.5 kg. It comes as a kit and is available either in a lite version or as a fully autonomous system with onboard computing, wireless connectivity, and a battery.

Reachy Mini is currently in an early development phase. We’re sharing it as-is, without warranties or guarantees, to engage with early adopters and gather feedback. For multiple-unit orders (+10 units), please contact sales@pollen-robotics.com Privacy: Reachy Mini does not store, transmit, or process personal data by default. Any use of its camera or microphone functions is fully under the user's control. Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face do not collect or access any user data from the robot.

🧠 Built for Exploring, Playing, Learning & Sharing

• Compact & Affordable : Desktop-sized and starting from $299, ideal for creative prototyping, education and research.
• Plug & Play Behaviors : A set of 15+ robot behaviors is provided at launch on the Hugging Face hub so you can play and learn right out of the box.
• Grow with the Community : With easy uploading, sharing, and downloading of new robot behaviors, the possibilities grow exponentially with the Reachy-Mini community.
• Programmable in real-life & simulation : Intuitive and accessible coding using the open-source Python SDK (and soon support for more languages). With the simulation SDK, you can even test and develop projects before receiving the robot.

🤝 Designed for Human-Robot Interaction

• Expressive Movement : Motorized head and body rotation, and animated antennas for rich human-robot interactions.
• Multimodal Sensing : Equipped with a camera, microphones, and speakers for AI powered audio-visual interaction.
• Assemble It Yourself : Sold as a kit, build your own companion robot with friends and kids.

🌍 Open, Modular & Community-Powered

• 🤗 Hugging Face Integration : Use state-of-the-art open-source models for speech, vision, and personality.
• Open-Source Everything : Hardware, software , and simulation environments fully open-source and community-supported. Stay tuned for the hardware release!
• Community-Driven : Upload, share and download robot behaviors with the 10M users of the Hugging Face community.

Made with ❤️ by Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face.

🤗 Join the Reachy Mini Community on Discord .

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Really excited and curious about this. I would love to know more about the behaviours that come bundled with the robot.

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everyone will be able to build all sorts of apps thanks to the integrations with Lerobot & Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces?q=reachy

Discord link is broken.

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just fixed it: https://discord.gg/HDrGY9eJHt

what it do exactly ?

How to join the discord? the link doesnt seem to work

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It's been fixed now. https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini#686e6755f3c6d04fd6598b1d

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Can you talk to it and it talks back? I would love to have a robot that can tell stories to my kids and have conversations with them

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Was thinking of something fairly similar! The modality of the future, no doubt.

This could mark the beginning of consumer-scale physical AI!

Discord fixed link here: https://discord.gg/HDrGY9eJHt

Feel free to join! :D

rasberrypi with devices. have youb tried arduion? its very cool. try with mega

Hey do you give access to a gyroscope too or just accelerometer? Thanks

You wrote that it's open source. Forgive me if I missed it in the post, but where can I find the source code? I looked on the HuggingFace GitHub, but I couldn't find a public repo for Reachy

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Here's a list of all their public repos: https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ahuggingface+org%3Ahuggingface++is%3Apublic&type=Repositories

Maybe their Agents Course gets into where things are a little more: https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction

Is shipping available to Colombia? Looks great!

Any chance poor but reputable devs can apply for a grant or discount of some kind?

this could be a huge boon to the robotics space and a win for getting more people involved at a reasonable price. super exciting!

Does it have access to Internet? I wonder if it can be made to automate smart home devices in response to seeing something.

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Looks like Reachy Mini (not the Lite version) will have wifi.

One of the coolest things I've seen in a looooong time! Awesome!!

cool!!!

Nice!!!!

Without Hands, Legs or wheels it is NOT a robot

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It has motion. Robot is all about motion in physical world rather than look like human-being.

I want one.

Hello ! Is it possible to upgrade the 299$ version to the 499$ later ?

This is sweet...although would really like to see some arm capability at the least. This would add a lot more interaction capabilities, sure it might be a little more, but hopefully this is in development. Professional design engineer here would be interested in collaboration

Is it ready for shipment or have to wait? How long does it take to get shipped to Germany?

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Hi ! All the info is displayed above, depending on the version is the date of the shipping, cheers!

On order - Very exciting been looking for good open source interface to add alternative interaction to local LLMs had been going down wearable tech route (glasses / pendants pins) or Alexa skill or custom Ras PI build. Thanks Hugging Face for saving me loads of time. Cannot wait to pair with a text to speech model and start chatting with my adorable AI robot. I might even bundle with the 1000s of custom build Sparks we will ship over next few years. A million $ solution just a few years ago just became a $5000-10000 solution. About equivalent to the first Server and MACs I purchased in late 80s.

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Where are the AI models sitting ? Locally on reachy or remotely? For such cool price, i expect the ai models to be remote, either on the connected computer (mac or linux, lite version) or any server thru the wifi version ?

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I have the same question. I'm currently running local LLMs on my MacBook hooked to a Flask server so I can invoke them from the internet. Curious how I'd be able to connect Reachy to it

I’m really excited to get one! Do you know when shipping to Malaysia will be available?

Would it be possible to run the software on another robot that is based on Nvidia Jetson nano type chips?

What is the spec of the Raspberry Pi 5? How much RAM?

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https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

16 go ram

Probably they use it to control the robotic features and possibly the communication stack with the AI remote servers...

How may I cancel my order?

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Hi! Please send me an email to sales@pollen-robotics.com with your order receipt and invoice number 🤓

No Paypal :-(

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Hi ! Paypal it's available now :)

Super exciting!! Is it friendly to people with no coding background?

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Hi ! That's the general idea, if you are motivated enough to start discovering about coding and start learning, then this could be a great starting point. Besides, having a physical robot with you and seeing it implement the stuff you have built is 100% fun guaranteed.

Would love to buy if you ship to Thailand!

Hi! I want to cancel the ‘Reachy Mini Lite’ I bought two days ago and switch to the ‘Reachy Mini’ instead. Could you please assist me with that?

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Hi Cindy! Please send me an email to sales@pollen-robotics.com with your order receipt and invoice number 🤓

This little robot looks very cute, but unfortunately it will be available at the end of this year or even next year. So I hope it will be open sourced as soon as possible so that I can replicate it in China! If you also want to see it in China as soon as possible, you can communicate with us on QQ group: 985137152

Can we use the GPT api?

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yes

Make a delivery to Kazakhstan, please 🤗

I would love to work on this little dude.

Unfortunately, I'm not in a financial position to purchase one.

If anyone is feeling generous let me know. ❤️‍🩹

I have already paid and placed an order. Where can I check the order progress?

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Hi! The orders will start to be shipped as mentioned on the page according to the version you pre-ordered

For the 4 microphones on a Reachy Mini, please position them like a tetrahedron and not in a plane! The microphones alone should be able to tell where the sound comes from and turn the head in that direction without looking.

I see there is support for only linux and mac and no support for windows . Does it support WSL ?

Can I use another local compute board than the RPi5? Say the OrangePi5?

Hello Guys,

The shipment is late 2025 or early 2026? it showed after paying the money. It would have shown before, so i would have ordered differently.

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Hi ! It's shown in the blog, but maybe it was missed. We will ship by order of purchase and starting from late 2025.

Congrats to Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics—Reachy Mini looks fantastic! I’m keen to build one from scratch, but I can’t find the CAD/STL files or a Bill of Materials mentioned in the open-source description. Could you share where these are located, or if they’ll be released soon? Thanks for making robotics more accessible!

hi!, I ordered the compute + battery version. Will we have easy access to the raspberry 5 module. Are the cameras, microphone and speaker connected to the raspberry pi?. I am excited to add sensors to it. I have not touched anything arduino/robotics for over 10 years. I am excited to be back. I would love to add an arduino and communicate via serial, add h bridge and motors and give it mobility.

Hi, Do you have an estimated timeline for when JavaScript support will be available? It’s my preferred language. I could probably use Python with Vibe Coding, but I definitely feel more comfortable working in the language I know best. Thanks :)