Hugging Face with The Robot Studio · research humanoid
HopeJR
Open-source full-size humanoid with 66 actuated degrees of freedom, designed with French firm The Robot Studio; waitlist opened in 2025. Shipping status unconfirmed.
- Price
- $3,000Cheaper than 91%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: No official order or waitlist page found; the 2025 waitlist was informal (CEO asked people to DM him); design is open-source.
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Why it matters
Among the cheapest full-size humanoid designs announced, fully open source.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Hugging Face with The Robot StudioConsortiumHugging Face: $235M at $4.5B (Aug 2023); Nvidia agreed to acquire it for $12.93B (Sept 2026, pending approval).
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
HopeJR has more joints than 96% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
HopeJR costs less than 91% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for HopeJR and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention HopeJR gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 66 joints
- AI model
- LeRobot (Hugging Face)
- Actuators & motors
- 66 actuated degrees of freedom (actuator type not published in sources opened).
- Hands
- Not specified in sources opened.
- Sensors & vision
- Not published.
- Compute
- Not published.
- Battery & power
- Not published.
- AI & software
- Open-source design (Hugging Face says anyone should be able to build and understand it); demos were assisted by a remote operator.
- Other details
- Co-designed with The Robot Studio; can walk and manipulate objects.
Named suppliers:Hugging Face
From the maker
HopeJR is the only humanoid from Hugging Face with The Robot Studio in the atlas.
Watch HopeJR
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $3,000Estimated about $3,000 per unit (Hugging Face estimate; tariffs could change it).
- How to get one
- Not for saleNo official order or waitlist page found; the 2025 waitlist was informal (CEO asked people to DM him); design is open-source.
- Sold or delivered
- Waitlist opened May 2025; Hugging Face hoped to ship first units by end-2025 (no confirmation found).
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
NVIDIA - Hugging Face unveils HopeJR and Reachy Mini
Two open-source robots announced, HopeJR at about $3,000.
TechCrunch - Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics
Undisclosed price; Pollen had raised about EUR 2.5M.
TechCrunch
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | HopeJRHugging Face with The Robot Studio |  BoltMirrorMe TechnologySame job: research · Both walk · Both in development |  AdamPNDboticsSame job: research · Both walk · Both in development | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useSuperman (prototype)Unitree RoboticsSame job: research · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-05-29 | 2026-02-02 | 2024-09-09 | 2026-08-17 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 175 cm | 167 cm | — |
| Weight | — | 75 kg | — | — |
| Joints | 66 | — | 43 | — |
| Speed | — | 36 km/h | — | 45.6 km/h |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | $3,000 | — | — | — |
Sources
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