Hugging Person Buy a Humanoid Robotics Launch

AI Dev Platform Hugging Face has acquired pollen robotics, launching a robotics of France in France for an undisclosed amount. Wired Reports This hugging person plans to sell Pollen’s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let the developers withdraw and offer improvements to his code.

Polen’s robotics, which aims to bring available humanoid robots into the home, was founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet. The company managed to raise € 2.5 million (about $ 2.83 million) from investors, including BPIFRANCE, before its release, According to CrunchbaseS

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The acquisition marks the expansion of the efforts of the embrace of the Faces robotics, with which pollen was carefully incorporated. Last year, the hugging person merged with pollen to build a “Le Robot”, an open source robot trained to do various household cases. The hug also set up a Robotics team led by Remy Kaden, a former Robotics engineer from Tesla Optimus program.