Reachy Mini, the Family Language Tutor: A Robot That Knows Who You Are and What You're Learning
Maker Faire Bay Area 2026
September 25th-27th
Meet our family's personal language tutor: a Reachy Mini robot we programmed to help everyone in the house practice foreign languages. The robot recognizes each family member's face, pulls up a memory of what that person has been working on — vocabulary, grammar, past mistakes — and starts a spoken conversation pitched exactly to their level. Between sessions it tracks progress, so every chat picks up where the last one left off. Under the hood: face recognition, speech-to-text, an LLM-driven dialog engine, and a per-learner long-term memory store. Stop by, introduce yourself, and have a conversation — then come back later and see if it remembers you and what you practiced.
Tatiana, Yaroslav, and Andrey Tsyplikhin
We are a sibling maker team from East Palo Alto, CA. Tatiana is a high school senior interested in the intersection of AI, language, and neuroscience; Yaroslav and Andrey are her brothers and co-builders. We built this project to make daily foreign-language practice at home actually fun: a robot tutor that knows each of us by face, remembers what we've been studying, and holds conversations at the right level for each family member.
