NAO vs Reachy Mini

NAO V6 is a 58 cm, 5.48 kg, 25-DoF bipedal humanoid sold by RobotLAB for $16,990 and Generation Robots for €10,020 incl VAT. It uses an Intel Atom E3845 with 4 GB RAM, two 5 MP cameras, four microphones, sonar, tactile sensors, and a 62.5 Wh battery rated for 60-90 minutes. About 20,000 units have reportedly been sold in 70 countries; USC has 12 units. It is an education/research platform with Choregraphe, Python, and C++. Autonomy is claimed but not independently benchmarked; video demos exist but were title-only in this review. No payload, walking speed, hand DoF, or manipulation demos were found

Reachy Mini is a small (28 cm, 1.5 kg) open-source desktop robot from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, priced at $399 (Lite) and $499 (Wireless). It features a 6-DoF motorized head, full body rotation, animated antennas, camera, microphones, and speaker, designed for human-robot interaction, education, and AI experimentation. It has no arms, hands, or locomotion, so manipulation and mobility are minimal. The robot is programmable in Python and open-source, with a growing ecosystem including a 3D voice demo Space. Evidence is mostly official and early-development; no independent verification, endurance data, or customer deployments exist. Video titles exist but without transcripts, so capabilities cannot be confirmed. Compiled automatically from public sources on 2026-10-29; requires human review