Robot model
Reachy 2
Pollen Robotics (Bordeaux, France), acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025, manufactures the Reachy 2, an open-source upper-body humanoid robot with two 7-DOF…
- Manufacturer
- Pollen Robotics
- Form factor
- humanoid
- Maturity
- research
- Lifecycle
- active
- Website
- pollen-robotics.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Reachy 2, a humanoid by Pollen Robotics (research). 2 sources back the record.
Overview
Pollen Robotics (Bordeaux, France), acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025, manufactures the Reachy 2, an open-source upper-body humanoid robot with two 7-DOF arms designed for embodied AI research, available with an optional omnidirectional mobile base equipped with RPLIDAR S2 navigation. Each arm lifts up to 3 kg; local compute runs on a SolidRun Bedrock V3000 AMD Ryzen-based unit and the robot runs models from Hugging Face's LeRobot library under an Apache 2.0 open-source license and is priced at $70,000. First-person VR teleoperation is supported natively.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- research(Lab-stage only; no commercial or public deployment reported.)
- Sources on file
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No verified deployments on file. DEPLOY tracks independently-sourced deployment evidence separately from manufacturer capability claims.
Key facts
Price
DOF
Payload
Software license
Specs
Ai system
Price usd
Drive mode
Payload kg
Dof per arm
Software license
Payload per arm kg
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Pricing
No verified price is on record for Reachy 2. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Reachy 2 on the deployment map
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 27, 2026
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Reachy 2.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (2)
- Reachy by Pollen Robotics, an open-source programmable humanoid robot · https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy/
- Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition · https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-28
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-28
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: research
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: humanoid
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- model-repository
- Model repository
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Reachy 2.Recent coverage
Reachy 2 in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Reachy 2 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
AI company Hugging Face buys humanoid robot company Pollen Robotics
Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind the Reachy humanoid robot, for an undisclosed amount. The move marks Hugging Face's first entry into hardware.
Pollen Robotics debuts Reachy 2 humanoid at CES 2025
Pollen Robotics introduced Reachy 2 at CES 2025, a new generation of its open-source research humanoid with 100+ robots already deployed across 20 countries.
Reachy 2
An open source humanoid powered by AI
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/pollen-robotics-reachy-2.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/065b5592-e7f4-455c-8785-ef28de474b07
- Revision history: /models/pollen-robotics-reachy-2/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Reality vs attention
Reachy 2 draws attention at the 28th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among humanoids.
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 18, 2026