Seeed Studio

深圳市矽递科技有限公司

The best-known "maker-to-manufacturer" bridge in Shenzhen. Three tiers of service sit on top of the same factory network: (1) **Fusion** — self-serve PCB/PCBA prototyping-to-mass-production (the original "no MOQ" PCB house that put Shenzhen fab access in front of Western hobbyists); (2) **Customization/ODM** — configurator-driven customization of Seeed's own reference platforms (Raspberry Pi/NVIDIA Jetson carrier boards, LoRaWAN/GPS trackers, industrial computers) with NRE + rework fees per customization item; (3) **OEM/ODM manufacturing partner for outside hardware brands** — full concept-to-mass-production (structural design, certification (FCC/CE/Telec), tooling, box build). This third tier is what makes Seeed a real contract manufacturer, not just a PCB shop — it is the arm that manufactures Hugging Face/Pollen Robotics' **Reachy Mini** and **Microduck** desktop robots.

CN Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · seeedstudio.com

What they make

Processes	CNC milling, Mold & tool making, FDM printing, PCB fabrication, PCB assembly (PCBA), Box build & final assembly, Enclosures, Mechanical design, ODM / turnkey, Compute boards & modules, Wireless modules (read from their description)
Capabilities	PCB fab (Quickturn/Premium/Advanced tiers, up to 30+ layers, Rogers materials, blind/buried vias), SMT + THT PCBA, DFA/DFM engineering review, Open Parts Library (150,000+ locally stocked parts, cuts turn time to ~7 working days), stencil, 3D printing, CNC machining, functional test, structural/enclosure design, certification support (FCC/CE/Telec), global dropshipping/fulfillment out of the Shenzhen factory, official Raspberry Pi Design Partner and NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem partner.
Parts and products	Reachy Mini (open-source expressive desktop robot, Hugging Face + Pollen Robotics) — Seeed is the manufacturing partner; Pollen Robotics shipped a 3,000-unit milestone batch to Hugging Face/Seeed in a rapid prototype-to-mass-production ramp, and Reachy Mini has surpassed 10,000 units shipped worldwide as of the 2026 Microduck launch post. Microduck (25 cm open-source biped, Hugging Face + Pollen Robotics, $399) — Seeed Studio announced itself on LinkedIn as "the official manufacturing partner" for Microduck (Aug 2026). Also reComputer (Raspberry Pi CM4 industrial AI edge devices) and XIAO board family.
Materials	unknown
Tolerance	unknown
Largest part	unknown

Order size and timing

Minimum order	No official minimum for Fusion PCB/PCBA ("no MOQ required" per Seeed's own marketing and confirmed by long-time customers — see community comments); PCBA runs have been done from single digits up through thousands of units by the same customer.
Prototypes	unknown
Small-run evidence	unknown
Startup friendly	Yes, strongly — explicitly built around no-MOQ prototyping and has a documented track record of taking hobbyist/startup customers from single digits to thousands of units on the same relationship (see SequoiaHope quote above). The ODM/OEM tier (used for Reachy Mini) is also proven at true startup/scale-up volumes (Reachy Mini's ramp went from prototype to a 3,000-unit batch "in mere months" per originofbots.com).
Quote turnaround	unknown
Prototype lead time	unknown
Production lead time	unknown
Instant online quote	unknown

Quality and company

Certificates	unknown
Business type	factory
People	unknown
Floor area	unknown
Founded	2008
English	High — English-native storefront, docs, support portal, and blog; explicitly built for a global (largely Western maker/startup) customer base.
Public customers	Hugging Face / Pollen Robotics (Reachy Mini, Microduck); NVIDIA and Raspberry Pi ecosystem hardware partners (reComputer line built on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4); numerous Kickstarter/crowdfunded hardware projects going back to 2016 (e.g., Flutter Wireless, cited in a public HN thread).
Address	unknown
Marketplace stores	unknown

Contact

Email	not public; request through Maglev
Phone	not public

Sources

Confidence VERIFIED · from public sources, not yet visited or ordered from · checked unknown