You may have noticed that he said “robots” There’s two. It’s called Reachy Mini and it looks like an adorable, Wall-E statue bust. It can turn its face and talk to you. It’s intended to be used for testing AI applications and will cost between $250 and $300.
You can think of these products in the same way as a Raspberry Pi but in robot form, and for AI developers – Hugging Face’s main client base.
Hugging Face released AI models for robots as well as a robotic arm that can be 3D printed. It announced this year that it had acquired Pollen Robotics – a company working on humanoid robotics. Cadene, Hugging Face’s Cadene, came to the company via Tesla.
Tesla’s Optimus Gen 2 robot is expected to cost at minimum $20,000, even though it is admittedly more advanced.
There are many barriers to robotics, and price is not the only one. Battery life is one of them. Unitree’s G1 runs for only two hours on a charge.
