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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
2025-04-14
1.4 years ago
Start
2025-04-14
1.4 years ago
Active for
1.4 years

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Hugging Faceother

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](/companies/foundation) models.

HQBrooklyn, New York, USAhuggingface.co2 partnerships

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Pollen Roboticsother

Pollen Robotics is a French robotics company developing open-source humanoid robots for research and embodied-AI applications. Founded in 2016 as an [INRIA](https://www.inria.fr) spinout, the company created the [Reachy 2](/models/pollen-robotics-reachy-2) teleoperated humanoid and the low-cost Reachy Mini. [Hugging Face](/companies/hugging-face) acquired Pollen Robotics in April 2025 to become its robotics hardware arm.

HQBordeaux, Francepollen-robotics.com3 partnerships

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Sources (1)

  1. https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition

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