Hugging Face launches Reachy Mini robot as embodied AI platform

Hugging Face, following its acquisition of Pollen Robotics in April 2025, has launched Reachy Mini, an open-source, compact robot designed to facilitate experimentation in human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI. Standing 11 inches tall and weighing 3.3 pounds, Reachy Mini features motorized head and body rotation, expressive animated antennas, and multimodal sensing via an integrated camera, microphones, and speakers, enabling rich AI-driven audio-visual interactions. The robot is offered as a kit in two versions, encouraging hands-on assembly and deeper mechanical understanding, and will provide over 15 robot behaviors at launch. A key advantage of Reachy Mini is its seamless integration with Hugging Face’s AI ecosystem, allowing users to utilize advanced open-source models for speech, vision, and personality development. It is fully programmable in Python, with planned future support for JavaScript and Scratch, catering to developers of varying skill levels. The robot’s open-source hardware, software, and simulation