Facts

• Company: Pollen Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: commercial
• Website: https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Reachy Mini is Pollen Robotics small open-source desktop robot for human-robot interaction and creative AI applications. It is designed as an accessible platform for education, experimentation and expressive robot behaviors rather than industrial manipulation.

Overview

Reachy Mini is Pollen Robotics small open-source desktop robot for human-robot interaction and creative AI applications. It is designed as an accessible platform for education, experimentation and expressive robot behaviors rather than industrial manipulation.

Market context

Reachy Mini is Pollen Robotics' compact open robot for human-robot interaction, expressive behaviour and developer experimentation.

• Target environment: Robotics labs, classrooms, developer spaces and human-robot interaction studies.
• Workflow context: Expressive motion, speech interaction, affective communication, teleoperation and software development.
• Deployment model: Small developer robot used for research, education, demonstrations and application prototyping.
• Commercial maturity: Public developer robot connected to Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face ecosystem work.
• Adoption constraints: Requires application software, interaction design, controlled indoor use and developer support.
• Market position: Accessible social robot for developers and researchers studying interaction with low-degree-of-freedom robots.
• Adjacent products: Compact interaction robot for education, research and social robotics experimentation.

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Expressive motion, speech interaction, affective communication, teleoperation and software development.

Capability

Humanoid

Deployment environment

Robotics labs, classrooms, developer spaces and human-robot interaction studies.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Developers
• Workflow: Expressive motion, speech interaction, affective communication, teleoperation and software development.
• Capability: Humanoid
• Deployment environment: Robotics labs, classrooms, developer spaces and human-robot interaction studies.

Specifications

• Price Starting At: $299 + shipping
• Open Source Status: 100% open-source hardware designs and software code
• Programming: Python programmable; future JavaScript and Scratch support
• Variants: Reachy Mini Lite; Reachy Mini Wireless
• Lite Compute: External computer required for Lite version
• Wireless Compute: Wireless version: built-in Raspberry Pi 5
• Power Source: Lite: wired power; Wireless: battery-powered operation
• Microphones: Lite: 2 microphones; Wireless: 4 microphones
• Audio System: 5W speaker
• Camera: Wide-angle camera
• Body Rotation Deg: Wireless version: full body rotation deg
• Imu: Wireless version includes accelerometer
• Height Cm: 28 cm
• Total Dof: 6 DoF
• Weight Kg: 1.5 kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Desktop social robot
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction, Robot learning data
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-06 - Article - Pollen Robotics is turning Reachy Mini hardware into a consumer robotics distribution layer

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-12 - Research Publication - Reachy Mini emotion-expression study measures perception of low-DoF robot affect - The paper studies how people perceive emotional expressions on Reachy Mini, a low-degree-of-freedom…
• 2025-12-24 - Production Milestone - Pollen Robotics Ships 3,000 Reachy Mini Units Worldwide Before Christmas - Pollen Robotics announced the shipment of 3,000 Reachy Mini units globally before Christmas.
• 2025-07-16 - Market Signal - Pollen Robotics Achieves $1 Million in Reachy Mini Sales - Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025, launched the Reachy Mini robot in July 2025.
• 2025-07-09 - Deployment - Pollen Robotics Ships First Reachy Mini Units to Beta Testers - Pollen Robotics announced the shipment of the first Reachy Mini units to selected beta testers.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Reachy Mini Units Shipped - 3,000 Reachy Mini units shipped worldwide - 2025-12-24 - Reachy Mini customers - desktop robot shipments - Pollen Robotics announced shipment of 3,000 Reachy Mini units worldwide before Chris…