Reachy Mini vs Reachy 2

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

Reachy 2 by Pollen Robotics (now part of Hugging Face) is a purchasable open-source upper-body humanoid on an omnidirectional wheeled base. Official specs list 7-DoF arms with ~3 kg payload each, 136-166 cm adjustable height, up to 50 kg, stereo RGB-D, LiDAR, and ROS 2 + Python SDK. Press reports a $70,000 price and use at Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and major AI labs. It is explicitly a lab robot, not consumer, and is teleoperated or Python-controlled; no autonomous or reliability evidence was found. YouTube demos are title-only and cannot be used for capability inference