Hugging Face starts selling open-source robots through Pollen Robotics acquisition

Evidence notes

• Hugging Face announced the acquisition of Pollen Robotics as a step into open-source robot sales and hardware.
• The company tied the move directly to LeRobot and its broader robotics ecosystem of models, datasets, and developer tools.
• This is the defining robotics event for Hugging Face because it adds a direct robot-hardware arm to an already large robotics software platform.