Pollen Robotics
About
About Pollen Robotics
Pollen Robotics builds open hardware and software for human-robot interaction, manipulation and embodied-AI development. Reachy 2 provides a larger mobile manipulation platform, while Reachy Mini packages cameras, microphones, audio and expressive motion into Lite and Wireless desktop versions with Python and JavaScript tooling.
Pollen states that more than 10,000 Reachy Mini units have shipped worldwide and currently fulfils orders in production batches with lead times up to 90 days. In August 2026 it introduced Microduck, a 25-centimetre open-source biped with 15 motors for reinforcement-learning experiments. Pollen operates as a Hugging Face company, linking its robots with community apps and model infrastructure while retaining separate product-specific maturity and task scope.
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Products
Operations
Output & shipments
- Shipments
2025-12-24 - Pollen Robotics announced shipment of 3,000 Reachy Mini units worldwide before Christmas. - Reachy Mini - worldwide shipments
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Orders & commitments
- Order / commitment
2026-08-31 - Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said more than 10,000 Microducks were pre-ordered during the first five days after launch, exceeding the total number of Reachy Mini units recorded over a year. Pollen warned that demand would delay fulfilment and moved to first-ordered, first-shipped sequencing. - Microduck pre-orders
Source - Order / commitment
2026-08-28 - Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf reported more than $2.6 million of Microduck orders during the first 24 hours after pre-orders opened. - Microduck pre-orders
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Luxonis
Inbound - Perception - Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 uses a Luxonis OAK-FFC 4P controller for its stereo head cameras
Source - Orbbec
Inbound - Perception - Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 uses an Orbbec Gemini 336 RGB-D camera in its torso
Source - Arducam
Inbound - Perception - Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 uses Arducam IMX296 RGB cameras with fisheye lenses in its head
Source - ROBOTIS
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Microduck uses 15 ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL XL330 smart servos for its actuated joints
Source - ROBOTIS
Inbound - actuation and motion control - ROBOTIS supplies dynamixel xm430 actuator for reachy 2 gripper for Pollen Robotics Reachy 2
Source - Raspberry Pi
Inbound - Compute & Control - Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini Wireless incorporates a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Source - SLAMTEC
Inbound - Perception - Reachy 2 mobile-base specifications identify a SLAMTEC RPLIDAR sensor
Source - ROBOTIS
Inbound - actuation and motion control - ROBOTIS supplies nine DYNAMIXEL XL330-M288-T actuators for Reachy Mini
Source - SolidRun
Inbound - Compute & Control - Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 runs its robot stack on a SolidRun Bedrock V3000 industrial PC
Source - Luxonis
Inbound - Perception - Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 uses a Luxonis OAK-FFC ToF 33D module between its head cameras
Source - Seeed Studio
Inbound - Manufacturing - Seeed Studio supplies engineering, industrial production and global shipment services for Reachy Mini
Source - Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics
Inbound - Compute & Control - Microduck uses a Rockchip RK3566 SoC with an AI accelerator for onboard compute
Source - maxon
Inbound - actuation and motion control - maxon supplies motors and gearboxes to Pollen Robotics for Orbita joints in the Reachy 2 robot platform
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Team
- Matthieu Lapeyre - Co-founder
- Pierre Rouanet - Co-founder
Research
- Pollen Robotics releases pollen-vision library on Hugging Face
2025-04-14 - Research Publication - • Pollen Robotics released the pollen-vision library on Hugging Face, providing developers with tools for computer vision applications in r... • The library includes pre-trained models and datasets tailored for robotic perception tasks. • Developers can access these resources to enhance robotic systems with advanced vision capabilities.
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Resources
Media library
- Reachy 2 straight posture
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Source - Reachy 2 mobile configuration
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Source - Reachy 2 operator awareness diagram
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Source - Reachy 2 manipulation practice
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Source - Reachy 2 VR teleoperation
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Official Pollen Robotics documentation, open-source software and first-party Reachy 2 media. Broken legacy datasheet links and generic coverage are excluded.
- Pollen Robotics open-source repositories
WEB · Open-source portfolio · Pollen Robotics
Source - Reachy 2 documentation
WEB · Reachy 2 · Pollen Robotics
Source - Reachy 2 documentation source
WEB · Documentation source · Pollen Robotics
Source - Reachy 2 Python SDK
WEB · Reachy 2 SDK · Pollen Robotics
Source - Reachy 2 tutorials
WEB · Reachy 2 tutorials · Pollen Robotics
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Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-27 - Product Launch - Pollen Robotics opens Microduck pre-orders
The robot weighs under 800 grams and combines 15 motors, a camera, depth sensor, two IMUs and an articulated beak. Its open-source SDK, robot-control software, simulator, reinforcement-learning stack and sim-to-real tools were available at announcement. Pre-orders opened in four colourways for North America, Europe and the UK; first deliveries remained a future target rather than a completed shipment.
Source - 2025-12-24 - Production - Pollen Robotics Ships 3,000 Reachy Mini Units Worldwide Before Christmas
Pollen Robotics announced the shipment of 3,000 Reachy Mini units globally before Christmas. The Reachy Mini is an open-source desktop robot designed for human-robot interaction and custom applications. This milestone indicates significant production success and strong market demand for the product.
Source - 2025-12-19 - Production Milestone - Hugging Face, Pollen Robotics and Seeed ship 3,000 Reachy Mini units
The three companies shipped 3,000 Reachy Mini units worldwide before Christmas 2025. More than 3,000 orders arrived within one week in November, accelerating the move from a 3D-printed prototype to industrial production with Seeed Studio. Seeed's logistics team dispatched the 3,000 units in three days after joint work spanning mechanical design, electronics, acoustics, manufacturing and supply-chain coordination.
Source - 2025-10-30 - Capability - Orbbec Gemini 336 powers Reachy 2 perception
Gemini 336 supplies stereo depth data for Reachy 2 to localise and manipulate objects such as fresh produce. Orbbec’s MX6800 depth engine combines active and passive imaging for operation across varied lighting conditions. Reachy 2 was already operating in at least eight research laboratories, including Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and CNRS.
Source - 2025-07-16 - Market Signal - Pollen Robotics Achieves $1 Million in Reachy Mini Sales
Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face in April 2025, launched the Reachy Mini robot in July 2025. The Reachy Mini is an open-source, desktop-sized robot priced starting at $299. Within a week of launch, the Reachy Mini achieved $1 million in sales, indicating strong market interest.
Source - 2025-07-09 - Product Launch - Pollen Robotics Ships First Reachy Mini Units to Beta Testers
Pollen Robotics announced the shipment of the first Reachy Mini units to selected beta testers. The Reachy Mini is an open-source desktop robot designed for AI experimentation and human-robot interaction. Two versions are available: a Lite version requiring an external computer and a Wireless version with built-in computing and battery.
Source - 2025-04-14 - Research Publication - Pollen Robotics releases pollen-vision library on Hugging Face
• Pollen Robotics released the pollen-vision library on Hugging Face, providing developers with tools for computer vision applications in r... • The library includes pre-trained models and datasets tailored for robotic perception tasks. • Developers can access these resources to enhance robotic systems with advanced vision capabilities.
Source - 2024-12-09 - Market Signal - Pollen Robotics plans Reachy 2’s CES 2025 debut
The company also planned an appearance at CES Unveiled Las Vegas on January 5, ahead of the main exhibition. Pollen described a global installed base of more than 100 Reachy robots across 20 countries, spanning research laboratories and other organisations.
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Relations
Relationships
- Seeed Studio
Reachy Mini Manufacturing Partner - Seeed Studio worked with Pollen Robotics on Reachy Mini engineering, industrial production and global shipment.
Context
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Context tags
- Wheeled Humanoid Mobile Manipulator Builder - Peer Group - Reachy 2 is a modular open-source humanoid with two seven-degree-of-freedom arms and an omnidirectional mobile base, built for robotics research, education, AI interaction, and…
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Pollen Robotics builds Reachy humanoid robot platforms.
- Humanoid development platform - Workflow - Reachy 2 is an open-source humanoid robot for embodied AI and robotics labs.
- Robotics research and education - Customer Environment - Reachy 2 is designed for AI and robotics labs, research and education.
- Bimanual mobile manipulation - Workflow - Reachy 2 combines dual arms, mobile base and manipulation-oriented research use.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Reachy 2 is commercially available/configured for research customers.
- Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Reachy 2 datasheet lists 7-DoF arms and grippers.
- Mobile manipulation robotics - Stack Layer - Pollen describes Reachy 2 as an ideal bimanual mobile manipulator for AI and robotics labs.
- Vision-language-action control - Capability - Reachy 2 is designed for embodied AI development, but do not overstate a specific VLA stack.

