Better known for its artificial intelligence software solutions, Hugging Face unveiled the Reachy Mini open-source desktop robot last year. It is designed to deploy AI applications that interface with the physical world.
The robot features a camera, four microphones, and a speaker, and can move its 6 DoF (degrees of freedom) head, rotate its body, or wave its antennas thanks to nine servo motors. Two versions are available: the Reachy Mini Lite designed for computers running Mac, Linux, and Windows, and the Reachy Mini Wireless autonomous robot, powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4, adding WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, an accelerometer, and battery support.
Both models share most of the same specifications:
| Reachy Mini Lite | Reachy Mini Wireless | |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | None - Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux | Raspberry Pi CM4 |
| Wifi | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Power supply | Wired | Wired & Battery |
| Microphones | 4 | 4 |
| Speaker 5W | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Camera (wide angle) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Accelerometer | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Head movement (6 Degrees of Freedom) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Full body rotation | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 2 animated antennas | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Dimensions | 28 x 16 cm ∅ | 28 x 16 cm ∅ |
| Weight | 1.5 kg | 1.5+ kg |
Reachy Mini’s SDK can be found on GitHub. It’s based on Python, but also supports JavaScript and Web apps, and can integrate with LLMs to easily build apps and publish them to Hugging Face. The SDK also features several app samples, such as the Conversation App to talk naturally with Reachy Mini, a Radio app, and a Hand Tracker app to follow hand movements in real-time. If you don’t own the hardware, you can run a simulator using the MuJoCo engine instead. Finally, you’ll find documentation for the robot on the Hugging Face website.
Note the robot has no legs or wheels, so it just stays on the desktop, and only the body, head, and antenna can rotate or move. The camera will enable computer vision applications, and the microphone and speaker should allow voice interaction using LLMs combined with text-to-speech and voice recognition.
During pre-orders, the Reachy Mini Lite was going for $299, and the Reachy Mini for $449, and they can still be purchased at these prices on the official website, but they are now also available on AliExpress for $388.84 (Lite) and $699 (Wireless with Pi 4).
Via Liliputing
Update: The post was initially published on June 11, 2025, and updated following its availability on AliExpress (Seeed Studio), and changes from the Raspberry Pi 5 to Raspberry Pi CM4 in the wireless version.
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