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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

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Reachy 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.

For anyone else confused by the headline citing one price and this comment citing another, it turns out the difference is between the "Mini Lite" and the "Mini" - the Lite seems to be connected to a computer all the time, and thus has no on-board compute, no accelerometers, no WiFi, and only half the microphones. My suspicion is that the $299 one is for playing around and the $450 one is if you want it to chase the cat around while you're at work

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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The robot mostly looks like a very basic alternative to the Lego robotics offerings (mindstorms/technic/spike). And, they are in more or less the same price range as well

Not sure what huggingface is going for here. Seems like a big distraction for the company

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Many many big words, and yet zero indication of what this robot might actually do that's useful. Unless it's primarily used as a learning/hobbyist tool -- in which case it's cool, but not going to "disrupt" anything.

I do like that it's open source though.

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