Pollen Robotics
<cite index="54-9">Founded in 2016 by two former INRIA researchers, Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, the French start-up Pollen Robotics initially focused on custom robotics projects for artistic and cultural installations.</cite> <cite index="51-6">Reachy 2, unveiled in 2024, is a fully open-source humanoid robot built for embodied AI research, human-robot interaction, and real-world applications such as teleoperation and assistive tasks.</cite>
<cite index="52-1,52-9">Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind humanoid robot Reachy 2, with the deal seeing Hugging Face sell the $70,000 Reachy 2, used for academic research at Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University, as well as testing embodied AI applications.</cite> <cite index="51-8">Released in 2025 following Pollen's acquisition by Hugging Face, Reachy Mini is a compact, programmable desktop robot designed to make robotics and AI experimentation more accessible to students, developers, and educators.</cite>
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