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.

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Expressive motion, speech interaction, affective communication, teleoperation and software development.

Deployment environment

Robotics labs, classrooms, developer spaces and human-robot interaction studies.

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
  • Height: 28
  • Total degrees of freedom: 6
  • Weight: 1.5
  • Price Starting At: Starting at $399
  • Body Rotation Deg: Wireless version supports full rotation

Tags

  • Peer Group: Desktop social robot
  • Workflow: Robot learning data
  • Capability: Human-robot interaction
  • Deployment Environment: Research lab
  • Commercial Stage: Developer platform

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