Hugging face is ready for developers to start dyeing and testing its latest robotic edition.
The AI -developing platform has announced Wednesday that it is now accepting orders for its Robots Reachy Mini. The company initially revealed the prototypes of these devices in Mayalong with a larger humanoid robot called Hopejr.
Hugging Face said it plans to release two versions of the Reachy Mini. The first, called Reachy Mini Wireless, is wireless and costs $ 449 and works on a Raspberry 5 mini computer. The second version is the Reachy Mini Lite, which must be connected to a computer source, but is cheaper at $ 299.
The open source robots come in gear for developers to build themselves. The reaching mines are about the size of a standard filled animal and come with two screens for eyes and two antennas.
Once built, these robots are fully programmable in Python. These devices also come with a set of pre -installed demos and are integrated with the Hugging face hubThe company’s open source machine learning platform, which gives users access to more than 1.7 million AI models and over 400,000 data.
Clém Delangue, the general manager of a hugging face, told Techcrunch that they decided to launch two versions of the Reachy Mini based on an initial feedback on the company’s original prototype. An early tester found that their five -year -old daughter wanted to be able to take the desktop robot around the house with her. The company calculated that she would not be the only one.
“The goal in the future is to keep carefully receiving many feedback like that of users, from the community, so we have always built products at embrace of face as an open source community platform,” Delangue said. “By nature that it is an open source, it means that people will be able to extend it, modify it, change everything they want.”
The target audience for these devices is AI developers, Delangue said. The reach mines allow users to encode, build and test AI applications on the desktop robot.
“Everyone will be able to build their own specific features and programs for Reachy Mini that then they will be able to share with the community,” DeLangue said. “So we hope that it will really release the creativity of builders to build, you know, millions of different applications, millions of different features that they can share with the community, so that anyone can, like, plug and play with it.”
The Reachy Mini Lite should start shipping next month, with the wireless version sending later this year. Delangue said it was important for the company to start sending shortly after orders, unlike making a long pre -order process with a blurry timeline, as they want to get the robots in the hands of users as quickly as possible.
Delangue added that this release really matches what hugging face is for its robotic program in general – open source hardware that gives users complete control.
“I feel it’s really important for the future of robotics to be an open source, instead of being a closed source, black box, [and] Concentrated in the hands of some companies, “Delangue said.” I think it’s a pretty scary world to have millions of robots in the home of people controlled by one company, with customers, users, not really able to control them, understand them. I would rather have a lot of place in place, or in a world, or in a country where everyone can have some control over the robots. ”
