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Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics
Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025, bringing the open-source Reachy 2 humanoid robot into its portfolio. Hugging Face now sells Reachy 2 and Reachy Mini robots directly, combining its AI platform with Pollen's hardware.
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- Status
- Concludedoperating
- Announced
- 2025-04-141.6 years ago
- Start
- 2025-04-141.6 years ago
- Active for
- 1.6 years
Who’s involved
Open-source AI platform company and host of the model hub. In robotics, Hugging Face develops LeRobot, the open-source robot-learning framework that hosts and runs VLA models (pi0, GR00T N1.5) along with datasets, simulation environments, and training tooling. The de facto open hub for robotics Foundation models.
Most-frequent partners
French robotics company developing open-source robots for research and embodied-AI applications. Founded in 2016 as an INRIA spinout, the company created the [Reachy 2](/models/pollen-robotics-reachy-2) teleoperated humanoid, the low-cost Reachy Mini desktop robot, and the [Microduck](/models/pollen-robotics-microduck) biped robot for reinforcement-learning research. [Hugging Face](/companies/hugging-face) acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025 to become its robotics hardware arm.
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