Hugging Face has started accepting orders for Reachy Mini, its first commercial robot and a departure from the company’s software-only roots. The open-source device, developed with recently acquired Pollen Robotics, is aimed at the platform’s 10 million-strong developer community and is intended to make hands-on robotics work as accessible as coding on a laptop. Two do-it-yourself versions are available. Reachy Mini Lite costs $299 but relies on an external computer, while the $449 Reachy Mini Wireless includes a Raspberry Pi 5 board, battery and Wi-Fi connectivity. Both units stand about 11 inches tall, ship as kits that require partial assembly and are fully programmable in Python, with JavaScript and Scratch support planned. Once built, the robots connect directly to the Hugging Face Hub, giving users access to 1.7 million open-source AI models and roughly 400,000 datasets. The company says the Lite model will begin shipping in August, with the wireless version to follow later this year. Reachy Mini is Hugging Face’s first hardware product since its April purchase of France-based Pollen Robotics and is backed by the company’s existing investors, including Sequoia Capital, Amazon, Google, Nvidia, IBM and Intel. By pricing the units well below traditional humanoid robots that can cost tens of thousands of dollars, Hugging Face hopes to broaden experimentation and accelerate innovation in consumer and educational robotics.