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Reachy Mini

Small open-source expressive desktop companion robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face. It has a movable head, antennas, a camera, 4 microphones and a speaker, and is sold as a DIY kit in Wireless (onboard Raspberry Pi CM4) and Lite (USB) versions. It is programmed through the Reachy Mini SDK and apps, not through LeRobot. It is unrelated to the full-size Reachy 2, which LeRobot does support.

open hardware · Apache-2.0 (software); CC BY-SA-NC (hardware design files)verified 2026-10-24aka Reachy Mini Lite, Reachy Mini Wireless, reachy_mini

Not in the main matrix. Reachy Mini is not a LeRobot robot. It ships its own SDK (reachy_mini Python package, JavaScript SDK) and a Hugging Face Spaces app ecosystem. It is absent from LeRobot v0.6.1's supported-hardware list and robots source tree, and its SDK does not depend on LeRobot. It is an expressive desktop head/body robot with no arm or gripper, so manipulation policies do not apply.

Specifications

Arms: 0
Price (USD): $399–$499 (DIY kits (~2 h assembly): Reachy Mini Lite $399 (USB, uses your computer), Reachy Mini Wireless $499 (onboard CM4). DAP, shipping/duties extra.)src
Homepage: www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/
Built-in sensors: RGB, single camera, Microphone array

A common confusion. Reachy 2, Pollen's full-size wheeled humanoid, is natively supported by LeRobot as robot_type reachy2. Reachy Mini is not. The Reachy Mini SDK can record and share "moves" as datasets, but these are its own format and tooling, not LeRobot robot integration.

Framework support

No framework support recorded.

Sources

T1 · upstream documentedofficial-docssource 2026-08-03verified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)lerobot 0.6.1
LeRobot's supported-hardware list names Reachy2 but not Reachy Mini; src/lerobot/robots at v0.6.1 has no reachy_mini module.
“SO100, LeKiwi, Koch, HopeJR, OMX, EarthRover, Reachy2, Gamepads, Keyboards, Phones, OpenARM, Unitree G1, reBot B601.”
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/v0.6.1/README.md
T1 · upstream documentedvendor-docsverified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)
Reachy Mini SDK repo: own Python/JS SDK and HF Spaces app store; Apache-2.0 software, CC BY-SA-NC hardware.
“Reachy Mini comes with an app store powered by Hugging Face Spaces.”
https://github.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/blob/9fb2bfcbdf4c9800b0649acb8f0c18027673943f/README.md
T1 · upstream documentedvendor-docsverified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)
License statement in the Reachy Mini README.
“Hardware design files are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA-NC.”
https://github.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/blob/9fb2bfcbdf4c9800b0649acb8f0c18027673943f/README.md
T1 · upstream documentedvendor-docsverified 2026-10-24 (1d ago)
Pollen store: Wireless $499 (CM4), Lite $399 (USB); camera, 4 mics, speaker; both DIY kits.
“Reachy Mini Lite USB • External compute $399 ✓ Your Mac/PC as brain ✓ USB only ✓ Camera, 4 mics, speaker”
https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/