Hugging Face starts selling open-source robots through Pollen Robotics acquisition

Date: 2025-04-14 · Type: acquisition · Company: Hugging Face

Hugging Face announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics as a step into open-source robot sales and hardware.

Hugging Face announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics as a step into open-source robot sales and hardware.
The company tied the move directly to LeRobot and its broader robotics ecosystem of models, datasets, and developer tools.
This is the defining robotics event for Hugging Face because it adds a direct robot-hardware arm to an already large robotics software platform.