Lukas Ziegler, a robotics creator visiting Pollen Robotics in Bordeaux with the company’s team, explores how Reachy 2 and Reachy Mini are built, operated, and designed for open-source robotics.
Ziegler visits Pollen Robotics in Bordeaux to see how the team builds its robots. Simon introduces the assembly areas and says Reachy Mini production is nearing the end of beta testing, with early units headed mainly to the United States and also to India.
The team describes training a robot with videos of a task and the corresponding joint positions. Rather than specifying every grasping step, they let it learn from demonstrations and successful attempts, comparing the process to showing a child how to do something.
Richie demonstrates speech, dancing, eye tracking, and emotional gestures, including the Macarena and a heart shape. The team also shows teleoperation in a kitchen: the robot handles milk and sugar, while Ziegler remotely controls it to pick up and stack objects.
The team says about 100 Reachy 1 robots were shipped. Reachy 2 adds stronger arms, more cameras, stereo vision, and a time-of-flight camera; payload rises from roughly 300 grams on Reachy 1 to about 3 kilograms per arm on Reachy 2.
The Amazing Hand is an open-source, interchangeable option that can mirror finger movements through camera tracking, while modular software makes it easier to switch hand designs. Reachy Mini is a roughly $350 desktop kit with a moving head; its open design lets builders create their own exterior skins.
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Santiago Pavon, growth lead at Pollen Robotics, discusses open-source robotics, Reachy 2, and ways to make embodied AI more accessible with the Humanoids Summit host in London.
Pierre Rouanet, co-founder and CTO of Pollen Robotics, and Elsa Kervella, the company’s marketing and sales lead, discuss Reachy’s manipulation, design and development at Pollen Robotics.
