Reachy Mini 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.

Specifications

  • Open Source Status: 100% open-source hardware designs and software code
  • Programming: Python programmable; future JavaScript and Scratch support
  • Variants: Reachy Mini Lite; Reachy Mini Wireless
  • Lite Compute: External computer required for Lite version
  • Wireless Compute: Wireless version: built-in Raspberry Pi 5
  • Power Source: Lite: wired power; Wireless: battery-powered operation
  • Microphones: Lite: 2 microphones; Wireless: 4 microphones
  • Audio System: 5W speaker
  • Camera: Wide-angle camera
  • Imu: Wireless version includes accelerometer
  • Total degrees of freedom: 6 DoF
  • Price Starting At: Starting at $399
  • Body Rotation Deg: Wireless version supports full rotation
  • Weight: 1.5 kg
  • Height: 28 cm

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