--- title: "Reachy Stories" kind: "Kit" category: "Companions" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/4924d6a6-2a33-4c5b-8c2c-6e7801f9875a" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Reachy Stories > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Lets a child make up a bedtime story with a Reachy Mini robot: the robot asks three questions, the child answers by voice, and the robot writes and reads the story aloud. For families and robot developers. Reachy Stories is a kit in the Companions category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by pollen-robotics ## About ### What it is Reachy Stories lets a child make up a bedtime story together with a Reachy Mini robot. The robot asks three short questions about a hero, a place and a magical object. The child answers by voice, and the robot then writes a full story timed to a target length and reads it aloud. The heavy work runs on a ZeroGPU backend. ### Who it suits It suits families and educators who own a Reachy Mini, and developers who want to study a voice-driven robot app. Who might use this app | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Family life | Parents | Make up a bedtime story with a child | The child names a hero, a place and a magical object | | Education | Teachers | Use a robot storyteller for a listening activity | Run one story with a small group | | Robotics | Developers | Study a robot app that listens and speaks | Read how the robot link is set up over WebRTC | If you do not have a Reachy Mini robot, you can skip it, since the narration plays through the robot and not the browser. ### Where to use it You use a browser to start it and the robot to hear it. - Web browser: the Space's page on Hugging Face, where you sign in and pick your robot - Reachy Mini robot: its microphone hears the child and its speaker plays the story - Windows, macOS or Linux: a local copy that runs on Python 3.12 What the app is good for | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Co-create a bedtime story | Children and parents | A complete story, narrated by the robot | | Story from a picture | Families | A story that Gemma writes from a photo the robot camera took | | Build on the robot link | Developers | A working example of a robot connected over WebRTC | ### How to set it up The hosted Space needs only a robot and an account. A local copy needs more. - A Reachy Mini robot - A Hugging Face account, for the sign-in step - Python 3.12, with pip - Node and npm, only if you change the browser code under the ts folder 1. Install the huggingface\_hub package. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Install Gradio 6.15.2. 5. Install the packages from requirements.txt. 6. Start the app with Python. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download pollen-robotics/reachy-stories --repo-type space --local-dir reachy-stories cd reachy-stories pip install gradio==6.15.2 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` If you change the browser code, rebuild it so the prebuilt files in the static folder stay current. ```bash cd ts && npm install && npm run build # outputs to ../static/ ``` ### How to use it Open the Space online, or start your copy with the command above. Sign in with Hugging Face, pick your robot, and let the robot ask its three questions. The child answers out loud, then listens to the story. Parts of the repository | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | app.py | The backend that opens a session for each robot | | central\_consumer.py | Receives the robot's microphone audio and sends voice back to its speaker | | gpu\_worker.py | Runs the GPU work as separate calls | | ts | The browser code for sign-in and robot selection, built into the static folder | ### Example A child tells the robot that the hero is a brave fox, the place is a snowy forest and the magical object is a lantern. The robot writes a story around those three pieces and reads it aloud through its speaker. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to this, begin with the three questions and keep the answers short. Everything the child hears comes from the robot, so keep the robot close. If you know the field, one worker thread per session runs the script in three stages, interview, generate and narrate. GPU jobs run as separate calls: Gemma pulls out each spoken answer and then writes the whole story. Kokoro synthesizes the narration in bounded chunks, so a narration lasting minutes never holds the GPU continuously. The robot wobbles its head during narration and flicks its antennas on a browser message. The child answers three questions by voice → Gemma extracts each answer → Gemma writes the full story → Kokoro narrates it in chunks → The robot speaks and moves ### Good to know The audio goes to the robot, and the browser only handles sign-in. - Sound: nothing plays in the browser - Sign-in: the browser sends your Hugging Face token, the robot's id and a connection offer to the backend - Camera: Gemma can also write a story from a picture that the robot camera takes - Voice: Kokoro speaks at 24 kHz - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: a Reachy Mini robot, a Hugging Face account and ZeroGPU time, and no other paid service is named - Data it reaches: the child's spoken answers from the robot microphone, any camera picture, and your Hugging Face token - Not for: playing the story in the browser, because the audio goes to the robot speaker ## README ````markdown # Reachy Stories Lets a child make up a bedtime story with a Reachy Mini robot: the robot asks three questions, the child answers by voice, and the robot writes and reads the story aloud. For families and robot developers. Made by pollen-robotics on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: Reachy Stories lets a child make up a bedtime story together with a Reachy Mini robot. The robot asks three short questions about a hero, a place and a magical object. The child answers by voice, and the robot then writes a full story timed to a target length and reads it aloud. The heavy work runs on a ZeroGPU backend. Who it suits: It suits families and educators who own a Reachy Mini, and developers who want to study a voice-driven robot app. ```table Title: Who might use this app Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Family life | Parents | Make up a bedtime story with a child | The child names a hero, a place and a magical object Education | Teachers | Use a robot storyteller for a listening activity | Run one story with a small group Robotics | Developers | Study a robot app that listens and speaks | Read how the robot link is set up over WebRTC ``` If you do not have a Reachy Mini robot, you can skip it, since the narration plays through the robot and not the browser. Where to use it: You use a browser to start it and the robot to hear it. - Web browser: the Space's page on Hugging Face, where you sign in and pick your robot - Reachy Mini robot: its microphone hears the child and its speaker plays the story - Windows, macOS or Linux: a local copy that runs on Python 3.12 ```table Title: What the app is good for Use case | Who | What they get back Co-create a bedtime story | Children and parents | A complete story, narrated by the robot Story from a picture | Families | A story that Gemma writes from a photo the robot camera took Build on the robot link | Developers | A working example of a robot connected over WebRTC ``` How to set it up: The hosted Space needs only a robot and an account. A local copy needs more. - A Reachy Mini robot - A Hugging Face account, for the sign-in step - Python 3.12, with pip - Node and npm, only if you change the browser code under the ts folder 1. Install the huggingface_hub package. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Install Gradio 6.15.2. 5. Install the packages from requirements.txt. 6. Start the app with Python. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download pollen-robotics/reachy-stories --repo-type space --local-dir reachy-stories cd reachy-stories pip install gradio==6.15.2 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` If you change the browser code, rebuild it so the prebuilt files in the static folder stay current. ```bash cd ts && npm install && npm run build # outputs to ../static/ ``` How to use it: Open the Space online, or start your copy with the command above. Sign in with Hugging Face, pick your robot, and let the robot ask its three questions. The child answers out loud, then listens to the story. ```table Title: Parts of the repository Tool | What it does app.py | The backend that opens a session for each robot central_consumer.py | Receives the robot's microphone audio and sends voice back to its speaker gpu_worker.py | Runs the GPU work as separate calls ts | The browser code for sign-in and robot selection, built into the static folder ``` Example: A child tells the robot that the hero is a brave fox, the place is a snowy forest and the magical object is a lantern. The robot writes a story around those three pieces and reads it aloud through its speaker. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to this, begin with the three questions and keep the answers short. Everything the child hears comes from the robot, so keep the robot close. If you know the field, one worker thread per session runs the script in three stages, interview, generate and narrate. GPU jobs run as separate calls: Gemma pulls out each spoken answer and then writes the whole story. Kokoro synthesizes the narration in bounded chunks, so a narration lasting minutes never holds the GPU continuously. The robot wobbles its head during narration and flicks its antennas on a browser message. ```flow The child answers three questions by voice Gemma extracts each answer Gemma writes the full story Kokoro narrates it in chunks The robot speaks and moves ``` Good to know: The audio goes to the robot, and the browser only handles sign-in. - Sound: nothing plays in the browser - Sign-in: the browser sends your Hugging Face token, the robot's id and a connection offer to the backend - Camera: Gemma can also write a story from a picture that the robot camera takes - Voice: Kokoro speaks at 24 kHz - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: a Reachy Mini robot, a Hugging Face account and ZeroGPU time, and no other paid service is named - Data it reaches: the child's spoken answers from the robot microphone, any camera picture, and your Hugging Face token - Not for: playing the story in the browser, because the audio goes to the robot speaker ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Likes: 1 - Built with: gradio - License: apache-2.0 ## Links - Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-stories - Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-stories/tree/main ## Try it Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [pollen-robotics/reachy-stories on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-stories) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reachy Stories (this page) | 1 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2026-06-02 | | [Reachy Mini ElevenLabs Conversation](https://mindket.com/p/8eb1ca5e-a8d4-46a8-a6b1-eeba701c7dd1) | 7 | static | apache-2.0 | 2026-08-11 | | [Rick \& Morty Bot](https://mindket.com/p/d0c22d56-879e-4f7c-aa3b-b19a6ab7dd6a) | 9 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2025-06-17 | | [GPT2-XL Conversational](https://mindket.com/p/8f7e6a03-bd1e-421c-8f6d-ceb32af96c43) | 8 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2022-11-30 | | [Global Leaders](https://mindket.com/p/602877db-7b56-4b62-83ca-2a1da1ecd223) | 7 | gradio | mit | 2026-06-15 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-06-02 - First published: 2026-06-01 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask ## Get it - [Open pollen-robotics/reachy-stories on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-stories) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/4924d6a6-2a33-4c5b-8c2c-6e7801f9875a) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/4924d6a6-2a33-4c5b-8c2c-6e7801f9875a)