Pollen Robotics
Company www.pollen-robotics.com ● Covered in 7 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph LinkedIn
Pollen Robotics is a robotics company that develops open-source systems and software aimed at robot learning and perception. Recent coverage highlights its launch of Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot and RL sim-to-real training stack distributed via Hugging Face, as well as the release of Grabette, an open handheld gripper platform for recording robot manipulation demonstrations. The company has also published pollen-vision, an open library for zero-shot 3D object detection and localization on robots, and it was acquired by Hugging Face to expand the platform’s offerings beyond software into complete robotic hardware.
Updated 12 September 2026
Signals
3 stories (+200%)
Media momentum
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4 sources
Source diversity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
1 event
Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
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Funding signals
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
Mar 2024 → Aug 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management
updated 6 Aug 2026- Matthieu Lapeyre Head of Robotics Product & Hardware
Latest developments
Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
MarkTechPost · 2 weeks ago ·
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This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks
The New Stack · 3 weeks ago ·
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Microduck
Product Hunt · 3 weeks ago ·
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Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
Hugging Face · 1 month ago ·
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Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini
Hugging Face · 3 months ago ·
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Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition 🤖
Hugging Face · 1 year ago ·
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Pollen-Vision: Unified interface for Zero-Shot vision models in robotics
Hugging Face · 2 years ago ·
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2026
- Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
- This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks
- Microduck
- Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
- Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini
2025
2024
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Microduck · 2 sources
- Develops Grabette · 1 source
- Develops Gripette · 1 source
- Develops Reachy · 1 source
- Develops Reachy 2 · 1 source
- Develops Reachy Mini · 1 source
- Deploys Microduck · 1 source
- Integrated with Hugging Face SDK · 1 source
- Integrated with Hugging Face simulator · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Hugging Face acquired this company · 1 source
- Hugging Face owns this company · 1 source
Partnerships
- Hugging Face partnered with this company · 1 source