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Reachy Mini

About

About Reachy Mini

Reachy Mini is an expressive desktop robot offered in Lite and Wireless versions. Both provide head and antenna motion, a wide-angle camera, microphone array and speaker; the Wireless model adds onboard Raspberry Pi compute, battery power and Wi-Fi, while Lite connects to a host computer over USB.

Pollen supplies Python and JavaScript SDKs, a desktop application and a community app catalogue for interaction and AI experiments. The company reports more than 10,000 units shipped worldwide and currently fulfils new orders in production batches with lead times up to 90 days. Community applications demonstrate software extensibility but do not turn the device into a physical manipulation platform.

06 MAY 2026

Pollen Robotics is turning Reachy Mini hardware into a consumer robotics distribution layer

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Human-robot interaction
  • Workflows: Robot learning data
  • Operating environments: Research lab
  • Deployment model: Small developer robot used for research, education, demonstrations and application prototyping.
  • Expressive interaction

    Research demonstration - 2026-05-12 - Reachy Mini emotion-expression study measures perception of low-DoF robot affect

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  • Expressive interaction

    Claimed - Pollen Robotics presents Reachy Mini Wireless for interaction through camera vision, microphone audio and expressive head, body and antenna motion.

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Operations

  • Shipments

    3,000 Reachy Mini units shipped worldwide - 2025-12-24 - Reachy Mini customers - desktop robot shipments - Pollen Robotics announced shipment of 3,000 Reachy Mini units worldwide before Christmas.

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Supply

Supply / Components

  • Reachy Mini Wireless

    Wireless Compute - Compute & Control - Raspberry Pi - Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini Wireless incorporates a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 - source: github.com

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  • Reachy Mini

    Nine Dynamixel Xl330 M288 T Actuators - Actuation - ROBOTIS - ROBOTIS supplies nine DYNAMIXEL XL330-M288-T actuators for Reachy Mini - source: ai.robotis.com

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  • Reachy Mini

    Engineering Production And Global Shipment - Manufacturing - Seeed Studio - Seeed Studio supplies engineering, industrial production and global shipment services for Reachy Mini - source: seeedstudio.com

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Research

  • Reachy Mini emotion-expression study measures perception of low-DoF robot affect

    2026-05-12 - Research Publication - This paper covers Reachy Mini emotion-expression study measures perception of low-DoF robot affect for Reachy Mini in Perception.

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Timeline

  • Hugging Face, Pollen Robotics and Seeed ship 3,000 Reachy Mini units

    2025-12-19 - Production Milestone - The three companies shipped 3,000 Reachy Mini units worldwide before Christmas 2025. More than 3,000 orders arrived within one week in November, accelerating the move from a 3D-printed prototype to industrial production with Seeed Studio. Seeed's logistics team dispatched the 3,000 units in three days after joint work spanning mechanical design, electronics, acoustics, manufacturing and supply-chain coordination.

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  • Pollen Robotics Achieves $1 Million in Reachy Mini Sales

    2025-07-16 - Market Signal - Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025, launched the Reachy Mini robot in July 2025. The Reachy Mini is an open-source, desktop-sized robot priced starting at $299. Within a week of launch, the Reachy Mini achieved $1 million in sales, indicating strong market interest.

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  • Pollen Robotics Ships First Reachy Mini Units to Beta Testers

    2025-07-09 - Product Launch - Pollen Robotics announced the shipment of the first Reachy Mini units to selected beta testers. The Reachy Mini is an open-source desktop robot designed for AI experimentation and human-robot interaction. Two versions are available: a Lite version requiring an external computer and a Wireless version with built-in computing and battery.

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Context

Market context

Reachy Mini is Pollen Robotics' compact open robot for human-robot interaction, expressive behaviour and developer experimentation.

  • Target environment: Robotics labs, classrooms, developer spaces and human-robot interaction studies.
  • Workflow context: Expressive motion, speech interaction, affective communication, teleoperation and software development.
  • Deployment model: Small developer robot used for research, education, demonstrations and application prototyping.
  • Commercial maturity: Public developer robot connected to Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face ecosystem work.
  • Adoption constraints: Requires application software, interaction design, controlled indoor use and developer support.
  • Market position: Accessible social robot for developers and researchers studying interaction with low-degree-of-freedom robots.
  • Adjacent products: Compact interaction robot for education, research and social robotics experimentation.

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