{"id":162185,"date":"2025-04-14T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/hugging-face-buys-a-humanoid-robotics-startup-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:37:22","slug":"hugging-face-buys-a-humanoid-robotics-startup-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/hugging-face-buys-a-humanoid-robotics-startup-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/hugging-face-acquires-open-source-robot-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wired reports<\/a> that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen\u2019s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet. The company managed to raise \u20ac2.5 million (around $2.83 million) from investors, including Bpifrance, prior to its exit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/pollen-robotics#financials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to Crunchbase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote twitter-tweet is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve followed the progress of robotics in the past 18 months, you\u2019ve likely noticed how robotics is increasingly becoming the next frontier that AI will unlock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Hugging Face\u2014in robotics and across all AI fields\u2014we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source,\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thom_Wolf\/status\/1911791750567387525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acquisition marks an expansion of Hugging Faces\u2019 robotics efforts, with which Pollen was closely involved. Last year, Hugging Face teamed up with Pollen to build \u201cLe Robot,\u201d an open source robot trained to do a variety of household chores. Hugging Face also established a robotics team led by Remi Cadene, a former robotics engineer from Tesla\u2019s Optimus program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/14\/hugging-face-buys-a-humanoid-robotics-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen\u2019s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code. Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}