Reachy Mini
Pollen RoboticsReachy Mini is an expressive desktop robot for building and testing AI apps. Its head rides on a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart platform above a rotating body, with two moving antennas, a wide-angle camera, a four-microphone array and a speaker, and it has no arm or gripper. Pollen Robotics sells it as a kit in a Wireless version with an onboard Raspberry Pi CM4 and a Lite version driven over USB from a computer, programmed through Python and JavaScript SDKs.
The SDK's PyPI package, `reachy-mini`, is not declared: hardware carries no download scale on the map, and the same package runs the robot's MuJoCo simulation, which needs no robot.
Openness
3 high confidence- form_factor
- board(a complete desktop robot, sold as a kit)
- schematics
- partial(STL meshes of the printed parts, kept as assets of the robot's simulation models
- toolchain
- open(driven by the Apache-2.0 SDK and daemon in the same repository)
- retail
- open_market(Wireless and Lite kits from Pollen Robotics' store and through Seeed Studio)
Pollen publishes STL meshes of the robot's printed parts for its simulation models, but not the full STEP design files, and it licenses the design files for non-commercial use only. The software that drives the robot is Apache-2.0 and builds from source, and the kits are on open sale.
- https://pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/ recorded 2026-09-28
Product page: "Reachy Mini Wireless" and "Reachy Mini Lite", each with "Order Now", and "Order via Seeed Studio" outside EU/UK and US/Canada; "Both ship as DIY kits."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/main/docs/source/troubleshooting.md recorded 2026-09-28
FAQ: "The full STEP files havenot been released yet, but we plan to release them in the future. In the meantime, you can find some STL files in the assets folder of the repository."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-28
LICENSE: the Apache License, Version 2.0 text.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-28
README: "This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License" and "Hardware design files are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA-NC."
- https://ungh.cc/repos/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/files/main recorded 2026-09-28
Repository tree: STL meshes of the printed parts (body_top_3dprint.stl, head_front_3dprint.stl, stewart_main_plate_3dprint.stl and others) in the asset folders of the robot's MJCF and URDF simulation models.
Adoption
2 low confidenceGitHub stars on the SDK repository, which also holds the robot's design meshes. Stars are the only adoption signal recorded.
- https://ungh.cc/repos/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini recorded 2026-09-28
Repository record for pollen-robotics/reachy_mini: 1,525 stars, description "Reachy Mini's SDK", pushed 2026-09-25.
Capability
1 medium confidenceReachy Mini turns its head, body and antennas to look and gesture, but it has no arm or gripper, so it cannot reach for or carry anything. That puts it a step below the SO-101, a single arm that can.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/main/docs/source/platforms/reachy_mini/hardware.md recorded 2026-09-28
Hardware datasheet: "Head : 6 dofs (3 rotations & 3 translations)", "Body : 1 rotation", "Antennas : 1 rotation (x2)"; "Wide angle camera: 120°"; base "1x Custom Dynamixel XC330-M288-PG", antennas 2x XL330-M077-T, Stewart platform 6x XL330-M288-T; mic array of "4 PDM MEMS digital mics"; 5W speaker.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-28
README: "Reachy Mini is an open-source, expressive robot made for hackers and AI builders"; Wireless (Raspberry Pi CM4, battery, Wi-Fi) and Lite (USB to a computer) versions; user guides for the "Python SDK" and "JavaScript SDK & Web Apps".
Verified 2026-09-28