Reachy mini: Giving a body to AI

Large language models can reason, generate code, and hold conversations. But they remain trapped behind screens. If AI is to become truly useful in our daily environments, it needs a body, a presence, and natural ways to interact with us.
In this talk, I’ll present Reachy Mini, an open and developer-friendly robot designed to explore what embodied AI can look like today. I’ll walk through how we are building its core software stack, from multimodal perception to real-time voice interaction, and why voice is emerging as the most natural interface for physical AI. We will look at how speech-to-speech pipelines, local inference, and modular backends allow Reachy Mini to move beyond scripted demos and into responsive, real-world interaction.
You will leave with a clearer understanding of what it takes to give AI a body, why voice-first interfaces matter, and how open tools can accelerate the next generation of interactive robotics.