Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face)

Hugging Face's open-source robotics arm: Reachy 2 humanoid and the $399-499 Reachy Mini

Division of Hugging Face · Shipping · Humanoid OEM · Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · Founded 2016 · pollen-robotics.com

Part of Hugging Face.

Profile

Bordeaux-based Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face in 2025, makes open-source robots tied to Hugging Face's LeRobot ecosystem. Its products are the Reachy 2 humanoid for research and the low-cost Reachy Mini desktop robot. It is the leading open-source hardware play in humanoids.

Notes Acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025; the co-founders and about 20 staff joined Hugging Face.

Leadership

• Matthieu Lapeyre, Co-founder
• Pierre Rouanet, Co-founder

Flagship robots

• Reachy 2 Wheeled humanoid
  Open-source humanoid for embodied-AI research
• Reachy Mini Component
  Open-source desktop robot ($399 Lite / $499 Wireless)

Trademarks

3 names filed in the US since 2025 · last checked Oct 15, 2026.

• MICRODUCK Filed, awaiting examiner
  Filed Sep 10, 2026 · Class 009, Class 042 · 2 filings · USPTO record
  Programmable robots for personal, educational, and hobby use; teaching robots; user-programmable bipedal robots.

  Our guess: may be a hobby robot following Reachy Mini

• REACHY MINI Examiner objection
  Filed Apr 28, 2026 · Class 009, Class 042 · USPTO record
  Application software for robots; educational robots.
• LEROBOT Examiner objection
  Filed May 13, 2025 · Class 009, Class 042 · USPTO record
  Providing online non-downloadable software development tools for developing software applications in the fields of data.

Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.

Competitors

Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.

• Unitree Robotics

  Adjacent competitor

  CNHumanoid OEM

  Both sell low-cost robots to developers and labs: Unitree Robotics sells low-cost humanoids and quadrupeds in volume, while Pollen Robotics makes the open-source Reachy 2 humanoid and the low-cost Reachy Mini.

  Sources (2)

  • Reachy 2: the open-source humanoid for embodied AI (Pollen Robotics)
  • Unitree Robotics (company website)

• Booster Robotics

  Adjacent competitor

  CNHumanoid startup

  Both sell humanoids to developers and educators: Booster Robotics makes compact T1 and K1 humanoids for research, education and robot soccer, while Pollen Robotics makes the open-source Reachy 2 humanoid and the low-cost Reachy Mini.

  Sources (2)

  • Reachy 2: the open-source humanoid for embodied AI (Pollen Robotics)
  • Booster Robotics (company website)

• Engineered Arts

  Adjacent competitor

  GBHumanoid OEM

  Both sell humanoids to research and education buyers: Engineered Arts makes Ameca, an expressive humanoid sold for research and entertainment, while Pollen Robotics makes the open-source Reachy 2 humanoid and the low-cost Reachy Mini.

  Sources (2)

  • Reachy 2: the open-source humanoid for embodied AI (Pollen Robotics)
  • Engineered Arts (company website)

Recent news

No dated news items in this dataset.

Suppliers

• maxon — Brushless/coreless motors, gearheads and drives

Sources

• Buy Reachy Mini (Pollen Robotics) (Oct 8, 2026)
• Reachy 2: the open-source humanoid for embodied AI (Pollen Robotics) (Oct 8, 2026)
• Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition (Hugging Face) (Apr 14, 2025)
• About Pollen Robotics (Oct 11, 2026)

Confidence: medium.

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