Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Can a little Pi-powered bot teach my kids?

The Reachy Mini Wireless I used was provided by HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics; you can find out more here: huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/Reachy_Mini

Other resources and videos I mentioned:

- Reachy Mini Examples: github.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini/tree/develop/examples
- ShortCircuit video with Riley's test: youtube.com/watch?v=_cY1rFrNQpE
- ESP32 Eyes for Reachy: github.com/algoryn-nl/reachy-mini-esp32-eyes
- Reachy Mini intro from CES: youtube.com/watch?v=acBv3G8r-1Y
- Hugging Face's agentic demo: huggingface.co/blog/nvidia-reachy-mini

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Contents:

00:00 - Replacing parent-child interaction
01:37 - Only some sarcasm detected
02:49 - Click the **** gear, Riley!
05:01 - Building Reachy Mini
07:23 - Internet required?
08:06 - Motor debugging
08:41 - Modes of interaction
10:14 - A learning robot
11:45 - Some disassembly required