Social RoboticsHugging Face buys Pollen Robotics, maker of the Reachy humanoid
The open-source AI platform acquired the French start-up to push into open robotics hardware.
Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French company founded in 2016 that builds the Reachy humanoid, for an undisclosed sum. The deal extended an earlier collaboration on an open-source household robot and came as Hugging Face built up a robotics team led by former Tesla Optimus engineer Remi Cadene. Hugging Face planned to sell Reachy 2 and let developers download and improve its code. The acquisition brought a major AI community platform into expressive, people-facing robot hardware.
Source: TechCrunch
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