Overview
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.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Founded
HQ
Business
Robotics role
LeRobot dataset
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
3
Web sources
6
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Thomas Wolf Co-Founder, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officersecondary-verified
- Clement Delangue Co-Founder, Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Julien Chaumond Co-Founder, Co-Founder & CTOsecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Clement Delanguecofounder
- Julien Chaumondcofounder
- Thomas Wolfcofounder
Former / Previously (2)
- Rémi Cadène Research Scientist, Robotics (LeRobot), Founder of LeRobotsecondary-verified
- Simon Alibert Co-founder of LeRobotsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Hugging Face.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (2)
Recent coverage
Hugging Face in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships (2)
- NVIDIA x Hugging Face (Isaac stack for LeRobot) with NVIDIAtechnologyannouncedreported, not operationally verified
- Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics with Pollen Roboticsotherconcluded
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdMay 28, 2026
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Sources (11)
- Hugging Face Blog: LeRobot v0.4.0 release · https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot-release-v040
- Hugging Face Docs: pi0 on LeRobot · https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/pi0
- Hugging Face platform · https://huggingface.co/
- https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition
- https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-face-opens-up-orders-for-its-reachy-mini-desktop-robots/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/hugging-face-launches-reachy-mini-robot-as-embodied-ai-platform/
- https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/hugging-face-acquires-pollen-robotics-launches-reachy-2-robot-for-open-source-research/
- https://venturebeat.com/technology/the-app-store-for-robots-has-arrived-hugging-face-launches-open-source-reachy-mini-app-store-with-200-apps
- https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/hugging-face-reachy/
- https://huggingface.co/docs/lerobot/en/reachy2
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Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-06
Verification posture
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High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-06
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- model-repository
- Model repository
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 2
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Hugging Face.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Hugging Face from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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- RSS feed: /companies/hugging-face/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b9ef1159-6629-46b0-a86e-db43ceeb65b8
- Revision history: /companies/hugging-face/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
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Last computed: Aug 21, 2026