{"id":24510,"date":"2025-07-26T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/24510\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:34:11","slug":"reachy-the-robot-gets-a-mini-kit-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/24510\/","title":{"rendered":"Reachy The Robot Gets A Mini (Kit) Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reachy Mini<\/a> is a kit for a compact, open-source robot designed explicitly for AI experimentation and human interaction. The kit is available from Hugging Face, which is itself a repository and hosting service for machine learning models. Reachy seems to be one of their efforts at branching out from pure software.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Our guess is that some form of Stewart Platform handles the head movement.<\/p>\n

Reachy Mini is intended as a development platform, allowing people to make and share models for different behaviors, hence the Hugging Face integration to make that easier. On the inside of the full version is a Raspberry Pi, and we suspect some form of Stewart Platform<\/a> is responsible for the movement of the head. There\u2019s also a cheaper (299 USD) \u201clite\u201d version intended for tethered use, and a planned simulator to allow development and testing without access to a physical Reachy at all.<\/p>\n

Reachy has a distinctive head and face, so if you\u2019re thinking it looks familiar that\u2019s probably because we first covered Reachy the humanoid robot<\/a> as a project from Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025.)<\/p>\n

The idea behind the smaller Reachy Mini seems to be to provide a platform to experiment with expressive human communication via cameras and audio, rather than to be the kind of robot that moves around and manipulates objects.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still early in the project, so if you want to know more you can find a bit more information about Reachy Mini at Pollen\u2019s site<\/a> and you can see Reachy Mini move in a short video, embedded just below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reachy Mini is a kit for a compact, open-source robot designed explicitly for AI experimentation and human interaction.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-24510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}