Pollen Robotics set up a small track in its office for a 3-lap showdown between the Reachy Mini Hoverboard and Microduck on roller skates. Microduck was piloted by Coco with a game controller, and Reachy Mini by Rémi via the Reachy Mini mobile app on iOS and Android. The race video shows which of the two robots crosses the finish line first.
Pollen Robotics (part of Hugging Face) has launched a Hoverboard two-wheel accessory for Reachy Mini, enabling Reachy Mini Wireless to move around and explore, and allowing users to drive it remotely with virtual joysticks via an iOS/Android mobile app, control its head movements, and view live video.
Pollen Robotics released a tutorial demonstrating how to install the NFC Accessories Kit in the head of Reachy Mini Wireless, enabling magnetic accessory detection with just four screws and no glue. Once installed, the robot can automatically recognize NFC accessories placed on its head, and each accessory can unlock a different personality in the Reachy Mini conversation app or trigger custom actions. The kit also includes extra NFC tags and magnets for users to create their own accessories and AI interactions.
Pollen Robotics has released the Reachy Mini Hoverboard, a compact two-wheeled mobile base that lets Reachy Mini Wireless roll and explore its surroundings.
Pollen Robotics releases the Reachy Mini Hoverboard, a compact two-wheeled mobile base that turns the Reachy Mini Wireless into a mobile robot.
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Pollen Robotics has released Microduck Arena, a virtual arena where Microduck robots race, train, and compete without the need for physical robots. Users train policies with reinforcement learning and publish them to their own Hugging Face accounts to enter challenges; each submission is evaluated uniformly by the Arena, and results can be compared across players. Published policies can be downloaded as .onnx files to watch replays and learn from the best runs.
Why it matters: It connects policy training, unified evaluation, and replay-based learning into a closed loop, letting readers learn how to train and compare reinforcement learning policies without physical robots.
Reachy Mini, the open-source desktop robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, has released a music video titled "Yo It's Your Boy" starring itself. Every scene and every shot in the video is interactive, and it was posted on YouTube with tags such as #ReachyMini and #YourBoyReachy.
Reachy Mini, a collaboration between Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, features the Conversation App, enabling fluent conversation, to-do list management, task reminders, and discussions about music. The robot has long-term memory across sessions and vision capabilities, allowing it to recognize what users show it. It is aimed at home AI companionship, and purchases can be made at reachy-mini.ai.