Pollen Robotics
ACQUIREDFrench manufacturer of the open-source Reachy humanoid robot, founded in Bordeaux in 2016; acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025.
Pollen Robotics
Founded 2016 · Bordeaux, FrancePollen Robotics is a French robotics company headquartered in Bordeaux, founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet — two former researchers from the Flowers lab at INRIA, where they co-created the open-source Poppy Project robotic platform. The company commercializes the Reachy family of humanoid robots with two 7-DOF arms inspired by human anatomy, designed to be open at both the hardware level (CAD files, BOM) and the software level (Reachy SDK, ROS 2 integrations). The robot is used in research on manipulation, teleoperation, and human-robot interaction, with customers including universities, research labs, software companies, and Hugging Face. On 14 April 2025 Hugging Face announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics, integrating the team and the Reachy platform into its ecosystem of open AI tools with the stated goal of advancing open and accessible robotics.
Founders
PhD in robotics from the Flowers lab at INRIA, where he co-created the open-source Poppy Project robotic platform — the direct predecessor of Reachy.
PhD in computer science from the Flowers lab at INRIA, co-creator of the Poppy Project; leads the software stack and Reachy SDK.
Domain of activity
2 areas · 2 technologies · 3 industries- Humanoid robots
- Embodied AI
- Robotics
- Embodied AI
- Robotics
- Research & science
- Education
Global presence
HQ Bordeaux · 2 regionsScale & funding
founded 2016Organizational relations
1 strategic relationsStrategic relations
1- Acquired byPollen Robotics acquired by Hugging Face on 14 April 2025 to develop open robotic platforms combined with the Hugging Face open-source AI ecosystem.2025 →
Profile & metadata
4 classification · 7 external linksClassification
- Statusacquired
- Development stagegrowth
- Listed onNo
- Organization typeRobotics company
