--- description: Find out why Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini earned a special mention on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. title: Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte47e3c681ec4c67b/6998caa025f3eeb050645159/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini An expressive educational robot by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy Pollen Robotics The Reachy Mini is a desktop humanoid robot designed for AI and coding experimentation as well as interactive learning. Its behaviors run on Python and it combines fully open-source hardware and software with expressive motions like head rotations and animated antennas. It integrates with Hugging Face’s AI ecosystem. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-special-mentions/7320890/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-special-mentions/7320890/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini/"},"headline":"Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:20:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:55:04.685Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-special-mentions/7320890/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte47e3c681ec4c67b/6998caa025f3eeb050645159/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte47e3c681ec4c67b/6998caa025f3eeb050645159/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini-TIME-best-inventions-2025.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-special-mentions/7320890/pollen-robotics-reachy-mini/","name":"Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini"}}]}] ```