In 2024, Hugging Face launched its robotics initiative LeRobot, led by former Tesla robotics lead Remi Cadene. One year later, the GitHub repository for LeRobot has accumulated more than 12,000 stars, and a thriving DIY community has emerged on platforms like YouTube and Discord. Hugging Face has now taken the next step in its open-source robotics journey by acquiring Pollen Robotics, a French startup best known for building the humanoid robot Reachy 2.
Founded nearly a decade ago, Pollen Robotics has spent years developing open-source robots and hardware. Co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre described Hugging Face as a “natural home” for their mission, citing shared values around openness and accessibility. “From the start, we built Pollen Robotics with open source at its core, driven by
Hugging Face Bets on Open-Source Robots with Reachy 2 and Pollen Robotics Team
- By Anshika Mathews
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At Hugging Face—in robotics and across all AI fields—we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source, transparent, and affordable; community-built and safe; hackable and fun.
