Pollen Robotics
Humanoid robot company · France
French maker of the open-source Reachy humanoid robots for AI and teleoperation research. Acquired by Hugging Face in 2025 to anchor its open-source robotics effort.
Pollen Robotics is a France-based humanoid robot maker, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bordeaux. It is owned by Hugging Face (since 2025). Product lines include Reachy 2, Reachy Mini. It appears in the directory's Humanoid Robot Companies (32 companies) list.
- Headquarters
- Bordeaux, France
- Founded
- 2016
- Ownership
- Hugging Face (since 2025)
- Robot types
- Humanoids
Products
Robot reference
Pollen Robotics coverage
- Hugging Face LeRobot GR00T N1.7 Integration and Microduck Biped Launch — Hugging Face updated its LeRobot library in July 2026 to support NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7 VLA model for fine-tuning. In late August, its Pollen Robotics team opened
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- Humanoid Robot Companies — 32 companies
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