Pollen Robotics SAS

Based in Bordeaux, France, and founded in 2016 by Jonathan Grizou, Matthieu Lapeyre, Nicolas Rabault, and Pierre Rouanet, Pollen Robotics SAS, operates as a provider of software applications that intends to provide accessible and open-source products and applications for facilitating artificial intelligence (AI) and developing robotics. In April 2025, Hugging Face, Inc. , a portfolio company of Intel Capital, IBM Ventures, Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, GV, Betaworks Ventures Management, SV Angel, TCG, AMD Ventures, Sound Ventures, Coatue Management, A Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Addition, AIX Ventures, Amazon, and Cygni Capital, acquired Pollen Robotics SAS from BNP Paribas, Bpifrance, and Société Générale Group. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company provides Reachy, an open-source robotics and AI humanoid platform programmable with Python and ROS that brings object manipulation, expressivity, machine learning, and human-robot interaction into one platform that users can install anywhere and remotely take control using VR and our teleoperation application.