Mino specs · Dreaming of Robots

Not announcedNo price yet. The Kickstarter pre-launch page and Mino's site promise up to 50% off for super early backers. The Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, TF card and cable are add-ons, and the battery power bank is not included.

Announced onlyVia SSH / web / bridgeKickstarterJetson on-boardROS 2Stereo depthOn-robot LLM

Not releasedShipping: Not shipping. The Kickstarter campaign has not launched yet (pre-launch page only), so no delivery date or pre-order exists. Kickstarter ↗

Remote control: Mino is a Linux host on Wi-Fi. Open it from VS Code or any IDE over SSH, build ROS 2 nodes in Python, C++ or Rust on the robot, and run them as Docker modules. An iOS app shows the cameras and drives it.

Kickstarter (pre-launch) ↗Official site ↗min(robotics) ↗

Overview

Mino is a small wheeled developer robot with an expressive stereo-camera head, built around an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano that runs speech recognition, a local LLM and depth perception on the robot instead of the cloud. A separate motion controller handles motors and servos with deterministic timing, and the robot reacts to touch by sensing servo load. Founder Nacho Mellado (formerly at Google X, Everyday Robots and Apple) has built it in public since 2024. The Kickstarter page is still in pre-launch, the documentation is "coming soon", and CE, FCC, UKCA and ISED certification is still pending. It suits ROS 2 developers who want a ready-made home robot with on-board AI and already own or will buy a Jetson.

A promising Jetson-powered ROS 2 home robot, but still pre-launch with no price or certification.

Specifications

Category	Wheeled rovers · Ready-made dev rovers
Released	2024
Country	Spain
Availability	Announced only
Crowdfunding	Kickstarter · Pre-launch page (as of Oct 6, 2026) Campaign ↗
Programmability	Full SDK
Built-in autonomy	Reactive · Responds to its surroundings without a map, such as avoiding obstacles or following a person
LLM support	Official LLM tools · Mino ships with an on-robot LLM module (up to 36 tokens/s) that apps query as a ROS 2 action, for conversation or planning the robot's next actions. Mino official site ↗
MuJoCo simulation	None found · Nothing found.
NVIDIA Isaac simulation	None found · Nothing found.
Gazebo simulation	None found · Nothing found.
Best for	Ages 14+ (estimated)
Vision sensors	Depth camera, Camera
Actuators	Mixed
Audio	Speaker, Microphone
Compute type	NVIDIA Jetson
Remote control	Via SSH / web / bridge
Size	Not published
Drive	Wheeled base with a servo-driven neck and head, drive layout not published
Compute	NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit (67 TOPS, 8 GB, sold as an add-on) plus a dedicated motion-control processor for motors and servos
Vision	Stereo camera pair as the eyes, stereo depth model at 10 fps using about 25% of the GPU
Lidar	None
Sensors	Microphone, speaker, impedance-based touch reaction through the servos, fused sensors for pose estimation
Runtime	Power bank strapped to the back (12–20 V, 60–90 W, not included), 2–5 h with more than 55 Wh. A wall adapter powers it for stationary development
Speed	Not published
SDK	ROS 2 on Ubuntu 22.04, open-source modules (speech-to-text, LLM, stereo depth, voice commands, emotion classification) running as ROS 2 nodes in Docker containers

Timeline

Apr 15, 2024UpdateNacho Mellado started building Mino and documenting the project publicly. Ignacio Mellado ↗
2026Kickstarter pre-launchThe Mino Kickstarter pre-launch page went up. Mino official site ↗