# Matthieu Lapeyre: founder, Pollen Robotics

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Co-founder and former CEO of Pollen Robotics (2016–2025). Former INRIA researcher. Now Head of Robotics Product and Hardware at Pollen Robotics following Hugging Face acquisition. Inventor of the Orbita bio-inspired joint system.

- **Nationality:** French
- **Verification posture:** reported

## Current roles (1)

- [Pollen Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/pollen-robotics.md) Co-founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Sources (1)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/hugging-face-buys-a-humanoid-robotics-startup/


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