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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 c…

It doesn’t look like even the more expensive one can move under its own power. Calling this a “robot” is quite, uh, imaginative.

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

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I read a lot of words, incl. collaborate, love, whatever. But what does the robot do exactly? I can collaborate perfectly well with LLMs, no need for a physical robot to do just that. I am genuinely lost about this product.

It makes money?

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

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Nothing in the article, the video, or the manufacturer's own blog post explains what this thing actually does . Seriously. This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece. As far as I can infer, the thing's basically a smart speaker which rotates.

> This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece.

As is probably more than half of the inescapable AI hype. Imagine replacing most devices and workers with their hallucinating counterparts.

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

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I read a lot of words, incl. collaborate, love, whatever. But what does the robot do exactly? I can collaborate perfectly well with LLMs, no need for a physical robot to do just that. I am genuinely lost about this product.

It makes money?

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

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The video makes it seem like a real product, the website/blog makes it seem like a collection of hardware to get started hacking on huggingface AI in combination with some basic robotics. The blog got me more excited than the video. Could be fun to tinker, and opensource hardware is cool.
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