REACHY MINI

Reachy Mini is a compact open-source robot from Pollen Robotics, now part of Hugging Face. You assemble the kit in about two hours, then program it in Python to move its 6-DoF head, spin its body, and wiggle two antenna ears while a 120° camera and four-mic array capture the room.

Two SKUs share the same mechanical design. Reachy Mini Lite ($399) tethers to your Mac, Linux, or Windows PC over USB for development. The wireless Reachy Mini ($499) adds an onboard Raspberry Pi CM4, Wi-Fi, IMU, and a 12.8 Wh LiFePO4 battery so it can run standalone demos without a laptop attached. Lead time is up to 90 days. Many orders ship sooner.

Launch software includes a web dashboard, MuJoCo simulation, 15+ ready-made behaviors, and Hugging Face Spaces apps for conversation, hand tracking, and radio playback. Hardware, firmware, and SDK are Apache 2.0 open source. The Pollen store ships to the EU, the UK, the US, and Canada. Other countries order through Seeed Studio.

HomeBotRadar tracks Reachy Mini for makers and educators who want a buyable embodied-AI desk platform. Compare it with Reachy 2 if you need full humanoid arms for lab research, or with EMO and Vector 2.0 if you want a finished consumer companion with no soldering.