Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) · research humanoid
Reachy 2
Open-source torso-and-arms humanoid with an expressive head and optional wheeled base, programmed in Python with Hugging Face's LeRobot library.
- Price
- $70,000Cheaper than 21%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Open-source humanoid sold by an AI company, after Hugging Face bought Pollen in April 2025.
Real-world use
Used by researchers at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon among others.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2024
- Released
- 2024
Maker
Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face)Company · founded 2016 · FranceAbout EUR 2.5M raised (incl. Bpifrance) before acquisition by Hugging Face for an undisclosed sum (Apr 2025).
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Reachy 2 costs less than 21% 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, joints, battery.
What it has been shown doing
1 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Kitchen workplaces cups on a dish rack using a policy learned from 50 VR-teleoperated demos, then run on its own · Jun 2024 · venturebeat.com
Not shown yet:SortAssembleFoldToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upRunJumpCarryOn siteAutonomous
Public attention
A hidden gem: a recent robot with full published specs that gets little attention so far.
- 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
- Wheeled base
- Chip
- Ryzen Embedded V3000 (AMD)On-board SolidRun Bedrock V3000 PC built on Ryzen Embedded V3000; heavy AI runs off-board.
- AI model
- LeRobot (Hugging Face)
- Actuators & motors
- Pollen's Orbita 2D/3D parallel actuators; 3D joints at neck and wrists, 2D at shoulders and elbows.
- Hands
- Gripper hands; each 7-DoF arm lifts about 3 kg.
- Sensors & vision
- Head with two global-shutter cameras and an optical distance sensor; microphones in the antennas; torso depth camera; LiDAR on the omnidirectional base.
- Compute
- SolidRun Bedrock V3000 PC (AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000) on board; AI runs in the cloud or on a local server.
- Battery & power
- 24 V battery, about 10 hours.
- AI & software
- ROS 2 Humble, Python SDK, Apache 2.0 open-source code; runs Hugging Face LeRobot models; VR teleoperation app (Meta Quest 2/3).
- Other details
- Adjustable height 136-166 cm; up to 50 kg; optional three-omniwheel mobile base.
Named suppliers:ROS (Open Robotics)maxonHugging FaceOrbbecAMD
From the maker
Reachy 2 is the only humanoid from Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) in the atlas.
Watch Reachy 2
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $70,000$70,000 (Hugging Face price, 2025).
- How to get one
- Maker's website
- Sold or delivered
- Sold to research labs at $70,000 (2025); units not published.
- Where it is sold or used
- Worldwide research market
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 - Reachy 2 offered at $70,000
The Batch reported Hugging Face's plan to sell the open-source Reachy 2.
DeepLearning.AI (The Batch) - 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. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Reachy 2Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) |  RB-Y1Rainbow RoboticsSame job: research · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024 | 2024-08 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | — | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | $70,000 | — |
Sources
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