Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face launched Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot priced at $399, available for pre-order in four colorways with shipping before Christmas 2026. The robot features…
Hugging Face unveiled the $399 Microduck waddling robot on August 27, 2026, expanding its consumer hardware lineup after acquiring Pollen Robotics in April 2025 and launching the $299 Reachy Mini in J…
A developer built Reachy PizzAIolo, an AI-powered conversational restaurant ordering experience using Pollen Robotics' Reachy Mini Lite and Seeed Studio's reTerminal E1003. The system lets customers p…
Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform led by CEO Clément Delangue, is exploring a sale that could value the company at more than $13 billion, nearly triple its $4.5 billion valuation from its Augu…
Hugging Face has released an open-source server that replicates OpenAI's Realtime API protocol, enabling developers to run a local speech-to-speech pipeline compatible with OpenAI's WebSocket interfac…
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics demonstrated a fully local conversational AI pipeline on the Reachy Mini desktop robot, using Silero VAD v5, Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3, Gemma 4 or Qwen3-4B LLM, and Qwen3-T…
Pollen Robotics released remote tool support for the Reachy Mini robot, allowing users to add third-party capabilities like web search and weather lookups with a single command. The new system enables…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have released a fully local speech-to-speech pipeline for the Reachy Mini robot, eliminating the need for cloud servers or API keys. The open-source stack runs entirel…