Tell AI what you want your robot to do — "wave hello," "follow my hand," "tell me a joke" — and watch it come to life. Programming experience? Not required.
A free 8-week, in-person workshop for kids ages 9–14. Each student brings their own laptop, their own Reachy Mini robot, and an OpenAI Codex subscription.
Reachy Mini is an open-source desktop robot built by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics. It's small, expressive, and made for AI builders — including kids.
Reachy Mini is about 11 inches tall, has a moving head with 6 degrees of freedom, two animated antennas, a wide-angle camera, four microphones, and a speaker. It connects to your computer (or runs on its own) and is programmed in Python.
Best of all — it's 100% open source. That means kids can read the code, change it, and share their own behaviors with the worldwide Hugging Face community.
A quick look at what this little robot can do — and the kind of behaviors your child will be vibe coding.
Robotics is where AI meets the real world. This class gives kids a head start in a field that will shape the next decade.
Not a simulation, not a toy — a real robot used by AI researchers around the world. Kids touch it, code it, and watch it move.
Plug an LLM into Reachy and have a real conversation. Use computer vision to track hands. The same AI grown-ups use, made kid-friendly.
Apache 2.0 license. Kids publish their behaviors to Hugging Face and become part of a global community of AI builders.
Each session pairs a hands-on coding goal with a creative challenge. Students leave every week with something their robot can do that it couldn't do before.
We use the exact same open-source stack as professional AI engineers — just at a pace and scale that fits a curious kid.
Describe what you want in plain English and let AI write the code
The AI coding agent (required) that turns your words into robot code
The robot library AI uses behind the scenes
The 'app store' where you publish your robot's behaviors
Plug a chat model into Reachy so it can talk and reason
Apache 2.0 — yours to keep, share, and remix forever
Kids don't need to learn Python first. They tell the AI what they want their robot to do, in their own words, and the AI writes the code.
"Make Reachy look up and tilt its head a little to the right, like it's curious about something on the ceiling."
from reachy_mini import ReachyMini
from reachy_mini.utils import create_head_pose
with ReachyMini() as mini:
mini.goto_target(
head=create_head_pose(
z=10, roll=15,
degrees=True, mm=True
),
duration=1.0,
)Curious kids can peek at the code — and many do! But the goal is to describe, run, and remix. Learning to read code is a bonus that happens naturally over the 8 weeks.
Reachy Mini officially supports AI coding agents — see Hugging Face's AGENTS.md guide for the same workflow.
Your own Reachy Mini
Every student needs their own robot to build on in class and keep tinkering at home. Lite is $299, Wireless is $449.
Order from Hugging FaceOpenAI Codex subscription
Codex is the AI agent that writes your robot's code from plain English. A ChatGPT Plus plan (about $20/mo) includes it.
Get OpenAI CodexThe robot is built by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics. Everything is open source and free to explore.