Published on: 2025-06-06 05:42:12
Hugging Face is best known as a platform for machine learning and AI development, but it has also been dabbling in the world of robotics. This week, the company revealed two new robots it plans to bring to market—including a humanoid one that it would sell for around $3,000, far less than many of the other options that have been floated, like Unitree's $16,000 G1. Dubbed the HopeJR, Hugging Face's robot has up to 66 actuated degrees of freedom. According to Hugging Face Principal Research Scien
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 09:28:24
AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open-source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-size humanoid robot that has 66 actuated degrees of freedom, or 66 independent movements, including the ability to walk and move its arms. Reachy Mini is a desktop unit that can move its head, talk, listen, and be used to test AI apps. Meet HopeJr, a full humanoid robot lowering the ba
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 17:47:35
Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. The company’s robotics division, LeRobot, partnered with French robotics firm The Robot Studio to debut the SO-100 for around $100 in October. Hugging Face teamed up with T
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 17:54:28
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET AI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find out. Also: The top 20 AI tools of 2025 - and the #1 thing to remember when you use them The language surrounding AI infrastructure, much of which emphasizes "the cloud" and other air-themed metaphors, can obscure the fact that it relies on energy-hungry computers. To ru
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 05:37:22
In Brief AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen’s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code. Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet. The company managed to raise €2.5 million (around $2.83 million) from investors inc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 01:33:57
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Every AI model release inevitably includes charts touting how it outperformed its competitors in this benchmark test or that evaluation matrix. However, these benchmarks often test for general capabilities. For organizations that want to use models and large language model-based agents, it’s harder to evaluate how well the agent or the model actually understands their
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-01 03:48:58
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage. The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has sub
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 12:16:42
AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face’s in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud. Point your camera and ask a question or request a description, and HuggingSnap will identify objects, explain scenes, read text, and generally try to make sense of what you’re l
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