Hugging Face Unveiled Two Open-Source Humanoid Robots

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AI development platform Hugging Face released two open-source robots, HopeJr and Reachy Mini. The first few units are expected to be shipped by the end of the year.

HopeJR is a humanoid robot capable of walking, moving its arms, and manipulating many objects, with 66 independent movements. It costs under $3,000. 

Reachy Mini is a desktop unit that can move its head, talk, listen, and be used to test AI apps. The cost will be around $300.

“The important aspect is that these robots are open source, so anyone can assemble, rebuild, and understand how they work, and that they’re affordable, so that robotics doesn’t get dominated by just a few big players with dangerous black-box systems,” the company’s co-founder and CEO, Clem Delangue, told TechCrunch.

This robot release was made possible in part by the company’s acquisition of humanoid robotics startup Pollen Robotics, which was announced in April.

UPDATE JUL 9, 2025:
Hugging Face said it plans to release two versions of the Reachy Mini. The first, Reachy Mini Wireless, will cost $449 and run a Raspberry Pi 5 mini computer. The second version is the Reachy Mini Lite, which requires a connection to a computing source and is priced at $299.

The open-source robots are fully programmable in Python and come with a set of pre-installed demos, as well as integration with the Hugging Face Hub, which provides users with access to more than 1.7 million AI models and over 400,000 datasets.