Hugging Face’s NEW Reachy Mini Robot – Open-Source AI You Can Build at Home!
Say hello to Reachy Mini — the newest open-source robot from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics. Standing just 11 inches tall and weighing only 1.5 kilos, it’s compact, expressive, and ready to bring AI to life… literally.
After acquiring Pollen Robotics in April 2025, Hugging Face set out to combine their powerful AI tools with real-world robotics. Reachy Mini is the first result — designed for enthusiasts, educators, and researchers who want to explore human-robot interaction, creative coding, and embodied AI.
It features a motorized head and torso, expressive antennas, and built-in camera, mics, and speakers — giving it full audio-visual sensing capabilities. In other words, it’s small, but smart.
Reachy Mini comes in two versions, both as DIY kits — so yes, you’ll build it yourself, but don’t worry, it’s more rewarding than frustrating. At launch, it’ll support over 15 robot behaviors and is fully programmable in Python, with JavaScript and Scratch on the way.
Thanks to Hugging Face integration, you can tap into state-of-the-art open-source models for speech, vision, and personality — making this one of the most accessible AI platforms on the market.
The Lite version ships late summer 2025, and the more powerful Compute version follows in batches through 2026.
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