Reachy Mini on a local AI stack: vision, face recognition and a menu-bar remote

I pointed a Reachy Mini robot at my own Kubernetes-hosted speech, language and vision models. Here’s how it sees with a VLM, why face recognition uses embeddings instead, and the SwiftBar menu that controls it all from my Mac.

October 19, 2026 · 7 min · Alejandro Bonilla