Reachy Mini - Yo It's Your Boy

Reachy Mini - Yo It's Your Boy

Plays a 2 min 12 s robot music video that is a web page, with Reachy Mini dancing in a three.js scene. Includes the player, the code and a frame by frame renderer.

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: This is a music video for Reachy Mini, the open-source desktop robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, built as a web page instead of an edited file. It uses HTML and CSS text animation over a three.js scene of the rigged robot, dancing moves recorded on a real Reachy Mini. A player on the page runs it live in the browser.

Who it suits: Fans of Reachy Mini, web developers who like animation in code, and video makers who want to see a film built from plain ES modules.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Robotics | Reachy Mini fans | Watch the trailer and pick cuts for sharing | Play the short cut in the browser
Web development | Front-end developers | Study the scenes, takes and timing code | Read how a page becomes a film
Video | Editors and creators | Render a cut to MP4 and use the caption helper | Export the vertical cut for a short-video app
Education | Teachers of creative coding | Show a full film made from code | Walk through the architecture notes

Skip it if you want a general video editor, because this project is one film with its own tools.

Where to use it:

• A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face
• Your own computer, with the downloaded files opened in a browser
• Node.js and npm on Windows, macOS or Linux, for the dev player and the renderer
• Headless Chromium and ffmpeg, for turning a cut into an MP4

Use case | Who | What they get back
Watch the film | Anyone | The full film or a shorter cut, in 16:9 or vertical 9:16
Share a moment | Social media users | A link, a ready-made video, a cover and a caption for the network you pick
Render a cut | Developers | An MP4 made frame by frame

How to set it up:

• Nothing at all to watch it online
• Python and pip, to download the files with the Hugging Face tools
• Node.js and npm, to run the dev player
• Playwright with Chromium and ffmpeg on your PATH, only for rendering MP4 files

1. Open the Space's page at Hugging Face to watch it online.
2. To get the files, install the Hugging Face hub package.
3. Download the Space and move into the new folder.
4. Open index.html in a web browser, or use the project's npm commands below.
5. Install the renderer's browser once before rendering.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download pollen-robotics/reachy-mini-yo-its-your-boy --repo-type space --local-dir reachy-mini-yo-its-your-boy
cd reachy-mini-yo-its-your-boy

npm install
npm run dev
npx playwright install chromium
node scripts/render.mjs --cut spot --format v

The repository is large, at 892 files, and holds the film, the tools that make it and an architecture note.

How to use it: Open the page and press the space bar to play. The top bar picks the full film or a shorter cut, in 16:9 or vertical 9:16. Share copies a link to the current moment and offers a video, cover and caption for the social network you choose. The render command makes an MP4 of the short cut in vertical format.

Tool | What it does
space or k | Plays or pauses
left and right arrows | Seek, with shift for a longer jump
n and p | Jump to the next or previous chapter
f | Fullscreen
t | Editor view with shots, music and sound tracks
m | Pin a review note at the playhead

Example: You open the Space and pick the Spot cut in vertical 9:16. You press the space bar and watch Reachy Mini dance. Then you open Share, choose the network you will post on, and get a matching video file and a caption.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new, open the Space online and press the space bar. Watch the full film first, then try a shorter cut. You need no setup for any of it.

If you know the field, the film is a pure function of time. The live page and the frame by frame render in headless Chromium and ffmpeg therefore agree. The code uses plain ES modules with no build step, and an architecture note explains scenes, takes, cuts, sounds and formats.

A web page draws each frame from time
Three.js shows the rigged robot
The browser plays it live
Headless Chromium renders frames
ffmpeg joins them into an MP4

Good to know:

• License: apache-2
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: it names four Hugging Face datasets, covering the trailer video, an emotions library, and dance and music recordings
• Not for: reusing the song, its stems, the sound design or the narrator, which Pollen Robotics keeps for itself and the code license does not cover

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 17
• Built with: static
• License: apache-2.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-mini-yo-its-your-boy
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/reachy-mini-yo-its-your-boy/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.