Reachy Mini Research

Research

• Pollen Robotics is turning Reachy Mini hardware into a consumer robotics distribution layer - 2026-05-06 - Article - Hugging Face is turning Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini into a small test of robotics distribution: cheap hardware, open development, and an app layer that can keep the robot useful after the novelty fades.
• Reachy Mini emotion-expression study measures perception of low-DoF robot affect - 2026-05-12 - Research Publication - The paper studies how people perceive emotional expressions on Reachy Mini, a low-degree-of-freedom robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face. In a 100-participant online study, viewers judged 10 short expression clips… - source: arxiv.org