Image created with Ideogram V2. Image prompt: A vibrant spring meadow with exaggerated blooming flowers in bright colors. Hidden comically in the middle are various robots of different shapes and sizes attempting to blend in with flower garlands and branch attachments. Robot arms stick out awkwardly from behind trees. Mechanical eyes peek out from flower clusters. Woodland animals ride on friendly robot backs. Oil cans and spare parts are scattered around poorly disguised as rocks. The whole scene is bathed in golden sunshine with lens flares. Vibrant colors and high detail. The word “ROBOTS” integrated into the scene.
“Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup building open-source humanoids Pollen is already selling Reachy 2, an open and VR-compatible humanoid for research, education, and embodied AI A big move from HF in open robotics! https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1912034498276900999
“Hugging Face has acquired a French robotics startup, Pollen Robotics, for an undisclosed amount. The Reachy 2 robot, developed by Pollen, is an open-source and VR-compatible bimanual robot for advancing embodied AI, available to order at $70K. Hugging Face, the leading platform https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911824405296230652
“Super happy to announce that we are acquiring @pollenrobotics to bring open-source robots to the world! 🤖 Since @RemiCadene 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
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“Hugging Face just acquired humanoid robotics company Pollen Robotics https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1911786756938006756
“Super inspiring to see @huggingface double down on AI for Robotics by acquiring @pollenrobotics, an open source robot manufacturer. https://x.com/ben_burtenshaw/status/1911843020309213547
AI company Hugging Face buys humanoid robot company Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy 2 | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/04/14/ai-company-hugging-face-buys-humanoid-robot-company-pollen-robotics-reachy-2/
“Jim Fan’s predictions: ⦿ In the next 2–5 years, robotics will uncover its own scaling laws – similar to those seen in LLMs – by analyzing how model size, real‑world data, simulation data, and compute affect performance. ⦿ Within the next 20 years, robotics will accelerate https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910367639425384568
“The Beijing Half Marathon, originally set for April 13, is now postponed to April 19 due to bad weather. Humanoids from over 20 teams will run alongside humans. Rules: ⦿ Only bipedal robots (no wheels) – remote-controlled or autonomous ⦿ Height: 1.6 ft to 6.5 ft ⦿ 10-minute
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“Three key enablers, according to Jim Fan, are aligning to bring robotics into the mainstream: ⦿ Foundation models that can understand and reason with the 3D world ⦿ GPU-accelerated simulation addressing data scarcity ⦿ Cheaper and more capable robot hardware https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910606309210415406
“Rock’em Sock’em Robots, but with Unitree G1! “Unitree will be livestreaming robot combat in about a month — stay tuned! The robot is actively learning even more new skills. You can control it via motion capture, a controller, or voice commands.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910338493643100433
“Let’s make AI robotics open-source! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1911768941107511624
Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition 🤖 https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition
“Gutsy move having NEO handle a watering can live on stage during Bernt’s TED talk – and NEO pulled it off. It seems the hand got stuck unexpectedly when putting the can away, but the remote operator was able to use the other hand to free it. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911192884851982829
“Detroit-based @borgrobotic unveiled Borg 01, a modular humanoid robot built strictly for industrial task automation. Its design targets high-efficiency deployment in real-world manufacturing environments. Supports modular components including swappable end effectors and a https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1911390394719387798
“Retweet: Unitree G1 Mini Beta Performance Testing #Unitree #Humanoidrobots #G1 https://x.com/IrvingRobotics/status/1912492111708217502
“Borg Robotics released a first look at the Borg 01 prototype with a wheeled base. The design also supports a bipedal configuration. The Detroit-based company is targeting industrial automation. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910824437106225638
“Humanoid robots will free humans from direct exposure to hazards in jobs like firefighting and pesticide spraying. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911817240577716334
“So excited to start selling Reachy 2 this week, the first open-source humanoid robot! It’s expensive ($70,000) but already in use at Cornell, Carnegie Mellon & major AI labs for robotics research and education. Some of its strengths: – Human-like form with articulated arms, https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1912554179140227578
“Optimus explorer fleet on Mars would be the coolest thing. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910410793759498243
“Clone Robotics gave a new glimpse of Protoclone, its synthetic android with over 200 DOF and 1,000+ myofibers It’s being built with principles of biomimetics, replicating all human soft tissues, with water serving as hydraulic fluid rather than motors https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1911450377175589313
“Unitree G1 makes running and turning look easy. Looks ready for the Beijing Half Marathon (April 19th). https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1912558671659450608
“Would you want a cute little companion robot, even if it’s not all that useful? https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910988143660318815
“1X’s NEO robot kicks off this year’s TED conference https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910751942156095962
“1X CEO Bernt Børnich: “I think we ask the question ‘What can AI do for robotics?’ way too much these days, and we don’t ask ‘What can robotics do for AI?’ ” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910357101458989255
“A Fortune article from April 6 pointed out discrepancies between Brett Adcock’s claims and a statement from a BMW spokesperson. But then, a WSJ piece on Figure from April 9 tells a very different story. That article mentions that, according to a BMW spokesperson, three robots https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911719739828871225
“Great to see Figure on Forbes AI top 50 list! The future is going to be exciting – one day, most things that move in the physical world will be robots https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1911915070688530742
“A BMW spokesperson told Fortune that Brett Adcock’s claim from February—that a “fleet” of Figure robots were already performing “end-to-end operations” for BMW—was an exaggeration. The BMW spokesperson said that up until March, a single robot was only practicing tasks during https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911140755487543340
“1X CEO Bernt Børnich brought NEO on stage for live demonstrations during his TED Talk. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910782422532391395
Samsung and Google Cloud Expand Partnership, Bring Gemini to Ballie, a Home AI Companion Robot by Samsung – Samsung Global Newsroom https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-and-google-cloud-expand-partnership-bring-gemini-to-ballie-a-home-ai-companion-robot
“Samsung also announced a partnership with Google Under the deal, the company will power its Ballie home robot with Google’s Gemini and its own multimodal AI models The football-like robot will roll out in South Korea and the U.S. this summer https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1911450160078467386
“cute little robot” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1910843661123809627
“Fourier has launched the N1 humanoid, a fully open-source hardware platform with basic operating software. ⦿ 4’3” (1.3 m) tall, weighs 84 lb (38 kg), features 23 DoF ⦿ Structure is a combination of aluminum alloy and engineering plastics ⦿ Swappable battery with a 2-hour https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911188276419154073
“Elon: “Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots!” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910345348440301790
“We challenged Reachy 2 to sort healthy & unhealthy foods—no AI training, just real-time object detection! Built using pollen_vision & our self-development kit. simple version : https://x.com/pollenrobotics/status/1897286630249259310
