# Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition 🤖

DevFeed: [Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition 🤖](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hugging-face-to-sell-open-source-robots-thanks-to-pollen-robotics-acquisition-7242.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition>)

Author: Thomas Wolf; Clem 🤗; Matthieu Lapeyre

Published: 2025-04-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

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## AI overview

Hugging Face announces the acquisition of Pollen Robotics to expand its open-source robotics efforts. The article highlights LeRobot, the Hugging Face Hub, and Reachy 2 as part of a vision for accessible robotics research, education, and embodied AI experiments.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.