Hugged face You are ready for developers to start playing and try their last robotics launch.
The IA development platform announced Wednesday that they are now acceptance orders for their Reachy Mini desktop robots. The company initially Presented the prototypes of thesis devices in Mayalong with a larger humanoid robot called Hopejr.
Hugging Face said he plans to launch two versions of Reachy Mini. The first, called Reachy Mini wireless, is wireless and costs $ 449 and is executed in a Raspberry 5 mini computer. The second version is the Mini Lite reach, which must be connected to a computer source, but is cheaper to $ 299.
Open source robots come in a kit so that developers are built. Minis Reachy are approximately the size of a standard filling animal and come with two eyes screens and two antennas.
Once built, these robots are completely programmed in Python. These devices also come with a set of pre -installed demonstrations and are integrated with the Hugging centerThe company’s open source automatic learning platform, which gives users access to more than 1.7 million AI models and more than 400,000 data sets.
Clam Delangue, the Hugging Face CEO, told Techcrunch that he decided to launch two versions of Reachy Mini based on the initial comments on the original prototype of the company. An early tester discovered that her five -year -old daughter wanted to be able to wear the desk robot around the house with her. The company believes that it would not be the only one.
“The objective in the future is to keep care receiving many comments such as users, from the community, this is how we have always built leg products in Hugging Face as an open source community platform,” said Delangue. “By the nature of being open source, it means that people can extend it, modify it, change everything they want.”
The target audience for thesis devices are AI developers, Delangue said. Minis Reachy allow users to encode, build and test AI applications in the desk robot.
“Anyone can build their own characteristics and specific applications for Reachy Mini that they can then share with the community,” Dengue said. “So we hope that the creativity of the builders will really unleashed to build, you know, millions of different applications, millions of different characteristics that can share the community, so that is, play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play.”
Reachy Mini Lite should start sending next month, with the wireless version shipping at the end of this year. Delangue said it was important that the company began to send shortly after the orders, instead of making a long anticipated order process with an unclear timeline, because to put the robots in the hands of users as quickly as possible.
Delangue added that this version is really in line with what Hugging Face is pointing to its general robotics program: open source hardware that provides users with complete control.
“I feel that it is really important that the future of robotics is open source, instead of being closed code, black box, [and] Concentrated in the hands of some companies, “Delangue said.” I think it is a quite scary world to have as millions of robots in the home home controlled by a company, with customers, users, not to control them. I would prefer to live in a place, or in a world, or in a country, where everyone can have some control over robots. “
