ASUS and Hugging Face have introduced a desktop platform designed to run robotics-based artificial intelligence systems locally. The collaboration combines the ASUS Ascent GX10 desktop AI computer with Reachy Mini, a compact open-source tabletop robot associated with Hugging Face. The system was presented during NVIDIA GTC 2026.
The platform is intended to allow developers to build and run “embodied AI” systems that interact with the physical world through robotics without relying on cloud infrastructure. The Ascent GX10 is built around NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip and is designed to deliver about one petaflop of AI computing performance with 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory. ASUS said the system is intended to provide data-center-level AI computing in a desktop form factor.
When paired with Reachy Mini, the system allows developers to run robotics models locally, enabling AI applications that process vision, speech and interaction directly on a workstation. Jeff Boudier, vice president of product at Hugging Face, said the setup allows AI models to run locally on a developer’s desktop. “The ASUS Ascent GX10 is the ideal compute platform to run AI models right from your desk,” Boudier said. “Coupled with Reachy Mini, it can power real-world AI applications that can reason, see, listen and speak back — without compromising privacy or performance.”
Yen Hoang, director of marketing for North America at ASUS, said the collaboration combines ASUS hardware with the open-source developer ecosystem around Hugging Face. “Together, we’re bringing AI and robotics closer than ever and giving developers everything they need—from compute to models—to build amazing things,” Hoang said. The companies demonstrated the platform during the conference, where attendees could test the combined system.
