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Rémi Cadène
Co-founder and CEO at UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant), building general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots on top of LeRobot. Formerly robotics research scientist at Hugging Face, with prior experience at Meta and Tesla. UMA raised ~$40M seed funding in 2025.
French · 2 current roles · 1 founding
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- Founder
UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) is a Paris-based humanoid robotics startup founded in 2025 by former Tesla Autopilot/Optimus engineer Rémi Cadène, Google D
Seed · $40M1 model - Former Founder of LeRobot
Open-source AI platform company and host of the model hub.
- Former Autopilot Engineer / Optimus Research Engineer
Electric-vehicle and AI company (NASDAQ: TSLA), founded 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a physical-AI program spanning three robotics fronts: a [r
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Foundings (1)
- UMAcofounderno longer at company
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Former / Previously (3)
- Hugging Face Founder of LeRobotSecondary-verified
- Tesla Autopilot Engineer / Optimus Research EngineerSecondary-verified
- Hugging Face Research Scientist, Robotics (LeRobot)? to 2025-06-30Secondary-verified
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