Hey Reachy

What it does

• Connect and discover

  Bonjour discovery, typed addresses, IPv6 and automatic reconnect. Robots are identified by hardware id, never by IP — the same robot at a new address is still the same robot.

• A robot that is not there

  A simulator inside the app, on every platform, with no daemon and nothing to install. The joystick moves it and the 3D model follows exactly as it would over the network — because it is the same code either side of the wire.

• Live control

  Joystick teleop of the 6-DoF head, the antennas and body rotation, with the camera and two-way audio, so you can talk through the robot's speaker.

• 3D viewer

  A RealityKit scene built from the robot's own URDF and meshes, mirroring what the robot is doing in real time.

• Moves

  Browse and play the recorded moves the robot ships with, from the app or by asking Siri for one by name. Record your own takes straight from the phone, then play them back.

• Sounds

  A soundboard for the robot's speaker. Add audio files on your device, send them across and play them with a tap. The library is kept on the device, so a robot that restarts and loses its copy is given it again on the next play.

• Apps

  Install, update and remove robot apps from Hugging Face Spaces, following each job as it runs. Filter and sort the catalogue and pin the ones you use most. The robot wakes itself before an app starts and parks again when it lets go.

• State

  The control loop's frequency, worst interval and error count charted live, beside the robot's own processor, memory, temperature and uptime.

• Files

  An SFTP browser for the robot's filesystem, so a log or a recording is one tap away.

• Bluetooth setup and recovery

  Put a brand-new robot onto Wi-Fi over an encrypted Bluetooth channel, or bring back one that fell off the network — raise the hotspot, restart the daemon, software reset.

• Remote access

  Reach your robots from outside their network through the Hugging Face relay. Commands travel on a brokered WebRTC data channel; the daemon's port is never exposed.

At home on your devices

• Widgets

  Status and apps on the Home Screen, and the status one on the Lock Screen and in StandBy as well. Both reach a Mac too.

• Menu bar

  On a Mac the robot sits in the menu bar: awake or asleep, one button to change it, and the installed apps underneath.

• Control Center

  On iPhone and iPad: power, a move or an app you choose yourself, a sound, and a button for stopping whatever is running — each one on the Lock Screen and the Action button too.

• Siri and Shortcuts

  Wake, sleep, power off, launch an app, play a move, or ask whether the robot is awake and what is running on it — and each of those can name which robot it means, so two Reachys on one desk are told apart.

• Six themes

  An accent colour and a matching app icon chosen as one decision, carried into the widgets too.

• Five languages

  English, German, Spanish, French and Russian.

For developers

Hey Reachy is Apache-2.0 and built on nine public Swift packages — transport and domain, WebRTC media, a RealityKit scene, a robot simulator, the design tokens, the widget layer, SFTP, Hugging Face auth, and the UI that composes them. ReachyKit is the only one a robot strictly needs, and the only one that pulls in no UI framework.

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The daemon's OpenAPI spec is committed in the repository, the whole suite runs against a MuJoCo simulator with no hardware attached — or against the client's own, which needs no daemon either — and every SwiftUI preview is a recorded snapshot test.

Source on GitHub · Design decisions · Issues