MethdAI Receptionist
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AI Receptionist for Reachy Mini

A front desk that recognizes faces and notifies the right host.

Visitors walk up to your Reachy Mini, the robot greets them by voice, looks up who they came to see, and emails the host that their guest has arrived — all in under ten seconds.

Returning visitors are recognized by face on their next visit. Operators run everything from a browser dashboard.

Install on your robot See what's inside
Gemini Live · OpenAI Realtime YuNet + LBPH face recognition iCal calendar matching Resend email delivery
MethdAI Receptionist dashboard

The operator dashboard — live camera, visitor log, employees, calendar, and settings, all in one browser tab.

What's inside

Everything a front desk needs, in one app

A camera-aware front-desk assistant that combines realtime voice, computer vision, calendar lookup, and email delivery into a single self-contained robot app.

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Natural voice

Bi-directional audio with Gemini Live (default) or OpenAI Realtime — chosen from a Settings toggle, no code changes.

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Face recognition

YuNet detector + LBPH recognizer. New visitors get registered, returning ones get greeted by name.

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Calendar-aware

Pulls today's appointments from any Google Calendar iCal feed. Auto-matches visitor names to host appointments.

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Real email delivery

Hosts get a real email via Resend the moment their visitor arrives — no waiting, no manual reception step.

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Live ops dashboard

Stats, visitor log, employee directory, calendar, settings — every operator action lives in one browser tab.

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Operator escape hatch

Bot mishears a name? The operator types it on the dashboard and the conversation picks back up seamlessly.

One-click install

Install on your Reachy Mini

From the Reachy Mini Control app, search MethdAI/receptionist-app and click Install. Or install via pip on the robot directly:

/venvs/apps_venv/bin/pip install --upgrade \
    git+https://huggingface.co/spaces/MethdAI/receptionist-app

/venvs/apps_venv/bin/python -m reachy_mini_receptionist.main

After install, open http://<your-robot>.local:7860/dashboard and follow the welcome banner — it tells you which API keys to add (Gemini, Resend, iCal) and where to get them.

How a visit feels

From greeting to host notification in 10 seconds

  • 👋 Robot greets the visitor as soon as a face is detected.
  • 🗣️ Visitor says their name and who they came to see.
  • 📇 Bot looks up the host in the employee directory.
  • 📨 Host gets an email — visitor arrival, time, appointment context.
  • 🧠 Next visit, the visitor is recognized by face — no name needed.

Where it shines

Offices, demos, and small-team lobbies

Built for actual reception workflows — not a toy. Used by the team at MethdAI as the lobby greeter for our own office. Apache-2.0 licensed so you can fork, adapt, or rebrand for your own venue.

Voice + Vision Calendar lookup Real emails Dashboard ops Apache-2.0