it is very cute regardless of it being a good idea. and like a raspberry pi for ai
Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
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Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#12I could be mistaken, but this is the industry currently dominated by vacuum cleaners that mostly serve as cat beds, isn't it?
So, disrupting it, is making whatever gizmo sells more than a vacuum cleaner.
Sounds very important and high tech.
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#13Reachy Mini Lite specs say: "Compatible with Mac and Linux (Windows soon)" Ahahahahaha! Ahem. How the mighty have fallen.
are you suggesting that Windows doesn't have the majority of the install base?
I think they suggest that Mac and Linux are supported while Windows is not. But maybe I have issues with my eyes...
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#15Reachy Mini has a Raspberry Pi 5, WiFi, 4 microphones, 5W speaker, wide-angle camera, accelerometer, animated antennas, full head and body movement, and can run on battery or wired power. Ships in batches from fall 2025, priced at $449 plus taxes and shipping.
$299 robot "costs" $449 before unavoidable additional charges
sigh
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#16Reachy Mini Lite specs say: "Compatible with Mac and Linux (Windows soon)" Ahahahahaha! Ahem. How the mighty have fallen.
I think they are all lucky it doesn't say "android and ios only" like many gadgets these days. Desktops are dying, I feel old...
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#17There are quite a few kid-targeted coding robots. I get that this has some Hugging Face integrations, but is there anything else here I’m missing that differentiates Reachy Mini?
It seems weird for a “$4.5 billion artificial intelligence platform” to be pivoting into the toy space.
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#18Reachy Mini Lite specs say: "Compatible with Mac and Linux (Windows soon)" Ahahahahaha! Ahem. How the mighty have fallen.
are you suggesting that Windows doesn't have the majority of the install base?
Arguably Alpine or whatever serverless uses has the majority of individual instantiations.
Windows has a lot of the long-lived corporateware.
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#19A Stewart platform for a head with wobbly antennae for secondary movement is incredibly expressive!
The line between robot and animatronic is often blurred. I know there are industry definitions—or at least de facto conventions—but for me a robot is something that performs and controls "mechanical work" based on external sensing or input. For me, the output "work" isn't meant to solely be character expression.
That said, animatronics from Disney Imagineers really blur the line for me.
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#20Very interesting its coming from hugging face? have they ever done hardware before?
Is it supposed to just be an amazon echo type unit?
Why all the movement capability?
It codes in python, but what would that code be doing?