I put a Reachy Mini in the living room.
It is a small desktop robot from Pollen Robotics, now part of Hugging Face. A head on a moving body, two antennas, a camera, a speaker, and a microphone array. Inside is a Raspberry Pi CM4 running a daemon that exposes the motors, the audio and the camera over an HTTP API on port 8000, plus an app system: you install a Python package onto the robot and the daemon runs it as the current app.
Out of the box it ships with demos. It waves, it dances, it follows a face.
What I wanted was a voice touchpoint for the family, and a way to interact with the family while I am traveling. I already run OpenClaw in the house. I call my instance Jeeves, which is my sarcastic but helpful British butler. It holds my calendar, the home automation devices in every room, a Jewish holiday and Sabbath scheduler, a knowledge base, and the skills that act on all of it. I talk to it through Telegram and a dashboard.
So the robot is a face and a microphone in the room where my family sits, and Jeeves is everything worth saying back. Wiring the two together was my last weekend's project.
