Open source humanoid robots that you can 3D print yourself? That's the vision behind Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which makes the Reachy 2 humanoid.
this morning. That’s great news for pretty much every country that is not the USA or China, the two nations that lead the world in humanoid robotics startups and innovation. “Super happy to announce that we are acquiring Pollen Robotics to bring open-source robots to the world,” Hugging Face said on X.
“Since Remi Cadene joined us from Tesla, we’ve become the most widely used software platform for open robotics thanks to LeRobotHF and the Hugging Face Hub. Now, we’re taking it a step further by teaming up with Pollen, who is one of the only companies in the world that actually ships open-source humanoid robots!” Pollen Robotics currently offers Reachy 2, a roughly humanoid robot that anyone can buy today for $70,000. It’s a rudimentary model right now that does not walk but moves on a wheeled mobile base or can be fixed in position. It does have advanced robotic arms with seven degrees of freedom for complex manipulation of objects, but only a 3 kilogram/6.6 pound lifting capacity per arm. Reachy 2 can be teleoperated with VR equipment, is fully open source, can be programmed in Python, and comes in multiple models with varying capability, but it’s best seen as a proof of concept right now. It’s certainly nowhere near the level of commercial models likein a fairly short period of time: years not decades. If that does in fact occur, nations and companies that own and/or adopt these kinds of technologies will be significantly more competitive than those who do not. Having open source humanoid robots could be a very valuable resource to those who do not develop the technology themselves. We’ve seen it before in software with Linux; it’s theoretically possible in a hardware world as well. “We believe robotics could be the next interface for AI — and it should be open, affordable, and hackable,” says Hugging Face. “Our vision: a future where everyone from the community can build and control their own robot companions instead of relying on closed, expensive black boxes.”in their robots which can turn them into surveillance devices for that nation, as recently appears to have happened with Unitree Robotics’s robot dog Go-1. According to MSN, Hugging Face co-founder and chief scientist Thomas Wolf would like to make Reachy 2 fully open source so that anyone could download schematics for the robot and potentially even 3D print their own.that Pollen’s entire team of about 20 will be joining Hugging Face, including Pollen’s two co-founders, Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet.
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