Breaking news: Hugging Face, la plateforme collaborative franco-américaine open-source devenus licorne, qui propose des modèles d’apprentissage automatiques, rachète la startup bordelaise spécialiste de la robotique humanoïde Pollen Robotics Robotics. Rappelons qu'en 2024, les deux entreprises avaient collaboré dans le cadre de l’IA Startup Program, ce qui avait équipes permis aux equipes de Pollen Robotics d'augmenter les capacités de manipulation et d’interaction de l'emblématique robots Reachy. Remi Cadene Matthieu Lapeyre
Co-founder @ Pollen Robotics | Phd in Robotics | open source interactive humanoid designer | former researcher @ INRIA Flowers
🎉 Exciting News: Pollen Robotics is Joining Hugging Face! From day one, openness has been in Pollen Robotics' DNA. We've always aimed to make robotics and AI accessible to everyone, creating technology that's positive, exciting, playful, and refreshingly simple. Democratizing robotics and fostering a joyful, collaborative community around our work has always been our core ambition. Joining Hugging Face, a company driven by the very same values in the field of AI, feels like an obvious and natural next step. It just makes so much sense to join forces and amplify our shared vision. I'm incredibly proud of the journey we've had with the amazing Pollen team and excited about what we’ll achieve next alongside Hugging Face. Huge thanks to everyone who's supported us so far, and to Hugging Face for offering us this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This next chapter is going to be awesome! Let's go! 🤗🤖🚀
