Custom apps and experiments for the Reachy Mini Lite robot

Three apps accepted into the official Pollen Robotics app store, plus documentation and examples for building your own.

A productivity body-double that watches you work. Reachy provides gentle accountability through presence, celebrates completed sessions, and reminds you to take breaks.

• Pomodoro-style focus sessions (5-60 minutes)
• Robot expressions change based on your focus state
• Break reminders with stretch suggestions
• Session completion celebrations

Make Reachy dance to music in real-time. Audio analysis drives synchronized head movements, antenna wiggles, and body sway.

• Real-time beat detection and BPM estimation
• 7 genre presets (EDM, Hip-Hop, Classical, etc.)
• Bass/mid/treble frequency visualization
• Works with any audio source via BlackHole

A companion robot that remembers you and grows with you. Echo builds a relationship through persistent memory and proactive behaviors.

• Persistent memory across sessions (remembers your name, preferences, conversations)
• Proactive behaviors (morning greetings, break reminders, build celebrations)
• 18+ LLM models via LiteLLM (Cerebras, OpenRouter, local Ollama)
• Voice input/output support

• macOS or Linux
• Python 3.10 - 3.13
• Reachy Mini Desktop App (optional)

# Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/BioInfo/reachy.git
cd reachy

# Create virtual environment
python3.12 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install SDK with simulation
pip install "reachy-mini[mujoco]"

# Install an app
pip install git+https://huggingface.co/spaces/RyeCatcher/dj_reactor

# Start the daemon
python -m reachy_mini.daemon.app.main --sim --headless

# Open dashboard at http://localhost:8000
# Find the app under "Applications"

When your Reachy Mini Lite is connected via USB:

# No --sim flag = physical robot
python -m reachy_mini.daemon.app.main --headless

Same code works for simulation and hardware.

This project is documented at runreachyrun.com:

• Timeline — Milestones and progress updates
• Journal — Detailed development notes
• Claude Sessions — AI-assisted development logs
• Blog — Longer-form posts about the journey

Follow along as I build apps with help from Claude Code.

from reachy_mini import ReachyMini
from reachy_mini.utils import create_head_pose

with ReachyMini() as mini:
    # Look around
    mini.goto_target(
        head=create_head_pose(z=20, roll=10, mm=True, degrees=True),
        duration=1.0
    )

    # Wiggle antennas
    mini.goto_target(antennas=[0.6, -0.6], duration=0.3)
    mini.goto_target(antennas=[-0.6, 0.6], duration=0.3)

reachy-mini-make-app my_awesome_app

See Publishing Apps for the full guide.

MIT © Justin Johnson

_{Built with Claude Code — Follow the journey}