Hugging Face’s $299 Desktop Robot (Reachy Mini)

Hugging Face unveiled Reachy Mini, a small, $299 open-source desktop robot kit designed for AI developers (July 2025). It’s an armature robot with an onboard Raspberry Pi that comes preloaded with access to Hugging Face’s AI models and tools. By democratizing robotics development, Reachy Mini lets even hobbyists experiment with AI-driven robots – for example, teaching it to grasp objects using vision models