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Pollen Robotics is a robotics company founded 2016, based in France, developing 3 robots primarily in the Humanoid category.
Open-source interactive humanoid robots for research and learning
Pollen Robotics built open-source humanoid robots including Reachy, Reachy 2, and Reachy Mini for human-robot interaction, manipulation, and embodied-AI research. The company was based in Bordeaux, France, and sold to academic researchers, educators, and innovation teams seeking a turnkey robotics platform.
Total funding
US$2.8M
Active products
3
Maker Score
65
Strong evidence
View factor breakdown
Price range
$449
1 of 3 priced
Top-rated product
52.7
RoboScore
Reachy Robot
Company facts
- HQ
- Bordeaux, France
- Founded
- 2016 · 10 yrs
- Employees
- 20
- Stage
- Acquired (2025)
- Website
- www.pollen-robotics.com
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Maker Score
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6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics and said it would sell Reachy 2 for embodied AI applications.
Pollen Robotics introduced Reachy Mini as a new small open-source humanoid robot.
Pollen Robotics was described as a Bordeaux-based startup created in 2016, focused on humanoid service robots for human-robot interaction and manipulation.
Pollen Robotics was founded in Bordeaux by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, former INRIA researchers.
Press coverage
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
28.3momentumWhy Resellers Are Buying Pollen Robotics' Microducks
In the news
3 events · last 90 days
Why Pollen Robotics has been in the news, across 7 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Active products by Pollen Robotics
3 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Reachy Robot | Humanoid | Height 1.80 m·Payload 3 kg | — | 2016 | 52.7 |
| 2 |  | Reachy 2 | Humanoid | Height 1.66 m·Weight 50 kg | — | 2024 | 47.4 |
| 3 | Reachy Mini | Education | Payload 1 kg | $449 | 2025 | 46.0 |
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