You can now pre-order Hugging Face's Reachy Mini robots

Hugging Face has launched a new AI-powered robot called the Reachy Mini. Described by its maker in a new blog as an "expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation," the Reachy Mini is targeted at anyone with an interest in this growing field of robotics. Its various functions and behaviors can be coded in Python, with support for JavaScript and Scratch due to be added later.

As you might have guessed from the name, the Reachy Mini is a compact robot, measuring just 28cm tall and 16cm wide. This means you can easily place it next to your computer on a desk, or the kitchen island while you cook. It comes in variants: the fully autonomous Reachy Mini, which is powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 and can run wirelessly from a built-in battery; and the wired-only Reachy Mini Lite, which currently only works with Mac and Linux. Hugging Face notes the Lite is still in early development. It also lacks the accelerometer that the pricier model has.

Otherwise, both robots are broadly similar, with both featuring two animated antennas, full body rotation and six degrees of head movement, as well as a single wide-angle camera and a 5W speaker. They both have microphones, but the Reachy Mini has four, while the Lite has only two. They’re sold as buildable kits that you assemble yourself.

More than 15 demos can be accessed on the Hugging Face hub at launch, so you can start messing around straight away, and anything you program yourself can be shared with the Hugging Face community (and vice versa), which the company says has more than 10 million members.

Hugging Face is taking orders for the $299 Reachy Mini Lite and $449 wireless Reachy Mini now, with the former expected to ship late summer 2025, and the more fully-featured model rolling out in batches from fall through 2026.

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