Just five days after opening the MINI Reachy robots, the AI Platform Hugging Face platform says it has recorded sales of $ 1 million. This is not a bad start to a company that has just recently expanded to robotics and is largely known to let developers download AI models open from the internet.
In this episode of Equity, the co -founder of Hugging Face and lead scientist Thomas Wolf breaks where he sees the company’s robotics. While other newly established companies facing home robots – such as 1x and 1x – want their robots to unload some of your jobs, the facial hugging the Mini Acceble as more than an entertainment device.
The device is small enough to fit in your office and has two magic with cameras behind them, as well as microphones, speakers, a confusing head and a pair of an antennas for robot ears. It is designed to come with some predetermined applications, but it also allows people to create their own applications that can run locally through open source software.
In the end, the face hug would like to create a network network for the Reachy Mini. Wolf even described the Mini Reachy as “a little bit like an empty iPhone”, implying how massive he thinks this market is.
Reachy Mini has gone a bit of a virus since the start, largely thanks to its friendly and open design, as well as the relatively accessible price point that allows consumers to try a robot powered by AI this year. Wolf says this is a key role in this launch – doing something that people want to see in their office daily and can really afford. Wolf describes Mini Reachy as a point of entry to get consumers to be comfortable with robots at home and gain their trust. We got more of them in the show.
I was initially thinking about Mini Reachy, but I started coming to it. I think the vision of Wolf and Hugging Face for the AI device looks fun and it looks like a great way for kids or people who are young in open source software to learn about the space. Wolf also says that he is interested in seeing if people will see code apps for their robots, an idea I am excited and slightly scared.
In other parts of the show, Wolf takes the listeners in the acquisition of French robotics of French robotics and his persistence in the development of a low -priced robot. Wolf also believes that AI Open Source will play a similar role in robotics as it has in the software and is trying to place the hugged face to capture that interest.
Later in the episode, we also enter:
- How they embrace facial designs to jump from software to hardware.
- Hugging facial ambitions in a day selling a complete humanoid robot.
- The role of privacy in consumer robotics and how the open source can deal with it.
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