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Pollen Robotics is a robotics company founded 2016, based in France, developing 3 robots primarily in the Humanoid category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
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No deployment evidence on file
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Add a deployment →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.
Company facts
- HQ
- Bordeaux, France
- Founded
- 2016 · 10 yrs
- Employees
- 20
- Stage
- Acquired (2025)
- Website
- www.pollen-robotics.com
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RoboScore
56.18 RoboScore + 2.98 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #33 of 42·Education·best robot 46.54 + depth 0.00 + news 2.98 = total 49.52
- #89 of 107·Humanoid·best robot 47.43 + depth 0.00 + news 2.98 = total 50.41
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
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
5 events · last 90 days
+2.98momentumof 15 maxHugging Face's new duck robot is selling fast. A Chinese chip powers it
In the news
5 events · last 90 days
Why Pollen Robotics has been in the news, across 13 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.
Public loss record
Consumer product alerts from this country reach the EU Safety Gate, which we read. Industrial, workplace and medical incidents never enter it, so a blank record says nothing about those.
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 | 46.5 |
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