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Luna

LimX Dynamics' full-size humanoid robot with fluid, dynamic locomotion.

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Reachy Mini

Open-source desktop robot from Pollen Robotics / Hugging Face for AI builders.

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Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

Reachy Mini, a desktop robot that costs less than $4,000, can now run advanced conversational AI entirely on its own hardware without connecting to the cloud, a capability that previously required expensive enterprise machines or constant internet access. The shift represents a watershed moment for robotics: as large language models shrink to fit on consumer-grade devices, the barrier between specialized industrial equipment and affordable consumer tools is collapsing. For the first time, small businesses and researchers can deploy physically embodied AI agents that operate independently—raising urgent questions about how quickly robotics will proliferate through workplaces and homes.

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Hugging Face And Pollen Robotics Open Pre-Orders For The $399 Microduck

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When the Camera Doesn’t Work: Testing a Robotics Camera Layer by Layer

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Can I Take These Together? Building MedGuide for Reachy Mini

How a simple medication question led to an idea for the future of clinical trials Continue reading on Medium »

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Gave my Reachy Mini a PM persona with tool access to our launch plan. It now runs standups for the Solo we're building on the Claude Agent SDK
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Gave my Reachy Mini a PM persona with tool access to our launch plan. It now runs standups for the Solo we're building on the Claude Agent SDK

We're building Solo (turns a vibe-coded app into a running business — the engine runs on the Claude Agent SDK), and we kept slipping on our own launch plan. So I put a PM persona on a Reachy Mini and...

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Talking with Gemma 4 31B!
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Talking with Gemma 4 31B!

Hi! I'm Andi from Hugging Face. This is a fully open-source and free to test/pull/modify demo I'm bringing today. It's a voice demo creating a pipeline of: - Nvidia's parakeet - Gemma 4 31B (served...

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Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

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I'm totally sold
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I'm totally sold

Robots are coming for our jobs, but maybe they'll also take over our hearts? Riley is here with Hugging Face's Reachy Mini which promises an accessible way to practice coding apps for your little ...

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We gave a Reachy Mini a real-time voice brain
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We gave a Reachy Mini a real-time voice brain

We were at an event the other day and found this little guy lying on our desk, a Reachy Mini from Hugging Face. It belongs to the daughter of the event organizer. We got curious about how it worked,...

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Hugging Face launches agentic toolkit for Reachy Mini

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The Humanoid Next Door: Reachy the Robot Bridges the Uncanny Valley at Michigan Tech

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Why Small Business Owners Still Reach for Personal Cards

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Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions

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You can now pre-order Hugging Face's Reachy Mini robots

Hugging Face has launched a new AI-powered robot called the Reachy Mini. Described by its maker in a new blog as an "expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative...

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Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release. The AI development platform announced Wednesday that it's now accepting orders for its Reachy Mini ...

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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

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Mastering edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma

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Akshay "build real-time voice agents using open-source models! Hugging Face just open-sourced speech-to-speech, and it gives you the entire voice pipeline as four swappable models. VAD → STT → LLM → TTS" ➡️ are you into voice? seems to be the trend now haha
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Akshay "build real-time voice agents using open-source models! Hugging Face just open-sourced speech-to-speech, and it gives you the entire voice pipeline as four swappable models. VAD → STT → LLM → TTS" ➡️ are you into voice? seems to be the trend now haha

https://x.com/akshay_pachaar/status/2083186716291305526 https://github.com/huggingface/speech-to-speech Resources are shared for discovery and are not independently vetted—please do your own due...

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LimX Dynamics Launches Full-Size Luna Humanoid Robot (Video)
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LimX Dynamics Launches Full-Size Luna Humanoid Robot (Video)

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Play poker with Reachy Mini and his friend Eliza - Built in 24hrs
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Play poker with Reachy Mini and his friend Eliza - Built in 24hrs

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Vibe coded nirvana
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Vibe coded nirvana

My dream to have my own Jarvis is here. 100% vibe coded. This is HuggingFace Reachy Mini light. Open sources kit with open source code. Started with their examples and started tailoring it. Claude...

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Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini

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Weekly AI roundup (May 23–30, 2026): Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode 3x cheaper, Qwen 3.7 Max beats Claude at half the price, ChatGPT moves into Excel

Pulling together this week's major AI releases for anyone who didn't have time to track every blog post. Sticking to substantive changes, not hype. Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.8 Released this week....

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ASUS and Hugging Face to Make AI Robotics Accessible with Reachy Mini Powered by NVIDIA

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The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

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All-girls college team reach F1 mini-car final

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Why 2025 is a pivotal year for robotics

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Hugging Face bets on cute robots to bring open source AI to life

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Reachy Mini Overloads on Cuteness, Creative Coding, and AI Experiments

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Reachy Mini - The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders

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HuggingFace And Pollen Robotics Open Pre-Orders For The $399 Microduck
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HuggingFace And Pollen Robotics Open Pre-Orders For The $399 Microduck

If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance.

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Needle 2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots.
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Needle 2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots.

Hey LocalLlaMa, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots...

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Reachy Goes Local on AMD Strix Halo

In May, Hugging Face published an article on running a local speech-to-speech cascade to power the Reachy Mini conversation app. The… Continue reading on Medium »

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Climatic reach of small-scale turbulence in the ocean interior

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Advancing Reachy Mini as a personal assistant
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Advancing Reachy Mini as a personal assistant

Got a light version a couple weeks back and put it together, now bending it to my will based on the open source conversation app. So far I have added: Mute (stops listening and seeing, head down,...

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Eyes, ears, and a voice: building Reachy Mini's media stack (open source)
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Eyes, ears, and a voice: building Reachy Mini's media stack (open source)

Hello, The problem looks simple at first, but it really isn't. Building a media stack that behaves the same whether it runs inside the robot, on your laptop, in simulation, on your phone, or on a...

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Top 10 robotics stories of May 2026

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Hugging Face's Reachy Mini: The $300 Open Source Robot

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Reachy Mini goes fully local

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Reachy Mini Hits AliExpress, Taking Embodied AI Global

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I'm totally sold - Reachy Mini

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Hugging Face’s Reachy Mini is an open source robot aimed at developers, priced at $299 and up

AI software company Hugging Face is now taking pre-orders for a small robot aimed at developers an folks learning to code. It’s called Reachy Mini, and it’s basically a programmable toy that sits on...

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DIY Robots: Adorable $299 Reachy Mini is Leading an Open-Source Revolution

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini at Just $299 for AI Developers

AI-powered assistants like this desktop robot hint at the future OpenAI envisions—one where software and hardware blend to reshape how we interact with information. Hugging Face Hugging Face and ...

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New robots make AI something anyone can try at home

Hugging Face, a well-known name in AI development, is making big moves in the world of robotics. The company has just introduced two open-source humanoid robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini, designed to...

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