Just five days after opening orders at the Mini Robots Platform of Programmers AI Hisging Face claims that it has registered sales value $ 1 million. This is not a bad start for a company that has recently been expanded to robotics and is largely known for allowing programmers to download AI Open Source models from the Internet.
In this episode, Equity co -founder and chief scientist Thomas Wolf breaks down where he sees the company’s robotics. While other startups dealing with home robots – equivalent to figure and 1x – want their robots to unload some homework, hugging their face perceives the eccuscines of mini as a more hacking entertainment device.
The device is sufficiently small to fit on the desk and has two distorted eyes with cameras behind them, in addition to microphones, speakers, head that fun and a few antennas for the ears of robots. It has been designed with some set applications, but also allows people to build their very own applications that may work locally via open source software.
Finally, hugging your face would really like to build a network of applications for RECHA Mini. Wolf even described Mini as “a bit like an empty iPhone”, indicating how massive this market is.
Retachy Mini has turn out to be a bit viral since the premiere, mainly thanks to the friendly and open design, but also relatively available price points, which allows consumers to try AI driven a work this 12 months. Wolf says that this is the key part of this premiere – creating something that individuals want to see every day on the desk and can actually afford. Wolf describes Resachy Mini as an entry point so that buyers are comfortable with robots in their home and earning their trust. We appeared more in the series.
Initially, I used to be skeptical about the mini reachy, but I started to come to it. I think that the vision of Wolf and Hugging Face AI seems funny and seems to be a wonderful means for children or individuals who can learn about space about space. Wolf also says that he is interested to see if people will encode their robots, an idea that may turn out to be fascinated and is a bit afraid of me.
In other points of the series, Wolf takes listeners in the acquisition of the French startup of robotics by the Hugging Face Start, and its insistence on developing a robot at a low price. Wolf also believes that the artificial intelligence of Open Source will play a similar role in robotics, because it has in the software, and tries to set the face to capture this interest.
Later in the episode we also enter:
- Like hugging the face, it plans to jump out of the equipment software.
- Hugging facial ambitions one day sell a full -size humanoid robot.
- The role of privacy in consumer robotics and the way open source can take care of it.