Embodied AI Glossary中文Pollen Robotics
AdvancedA French open-source robotics company behind Reachy, acquired by Hugging Face in 2025.
Pollen Robotics was founded in 2016 in Bordeaux, France, by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, who came out of the Flowers team at the French national research institute Inria. It builds open hardware-and-software robots: Reachy 2 is a torso-only humanoid with an omnidirectional-wheel base, two 7-degree-of-freedom arms, and support for VR teleoperation, priced around $70,000; Reachy Mini is a small, Python-programmable desktop robot priced at $299 or $449. On April 14, 2025, Hugging Face acquired the company, folding its technology into Hugging Face's open-source robotics library, LeRobot. In May 2026, Hugging Face launched an open-source app store for Reachy Mini with more than 200 apps.
ExampleResearchers use LeRobot to collect teleoperated demonstrations on a Reachy 2, then train an imitation-learning policy on the data.
- Also called
- Pollen
- Related
- Hugging Face · Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 · Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini · LeRobot · Open-Source Hardware (OSHW) · VR Teleoperation
- Sources
- Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition
Reachy Mini in the Wild | Pollen Robotics - As of
- 2026-05