Hugging Face’s new programmable Reachy Mini bots launched this week. The AI robots are open supply, Raspberry Pi-powered, and include cartoonish antennae and massive googly eyes. They don’t do a lot out of the field. And that’s form of the purpose.
Right now, on iinfoai’s Fairness podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha dig into the launch of Reachy Mini, which pulled in a stunning $500,000 in gross sales in its first 24 hours. As open supply corporations like Hugging Face discover bodily merchandise, Kirsten and Max agree that Reachy Mini is likely to be the Seinfeld of AI {hardware}: the bots would possibly do nothing specifically, however they’re nonetheless fascinating.
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