Hugging Face bets on cute robots to bring open-source AI to life

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Jul 16, 2025 14:32

Maxwell Zeff, Theresa Loconsolo

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Hugging Face has quickly sold $1 million worth of its new Reachy Mini robots just days after launching orders, marking a strong entry into the robotics market. This move extends Hugging Face’s open-source AI ecosystem into physical devices, potentially accelerating the integration of open AI models with real-world applications and broadening access for developers.

Just five days after opening up orders on its Reachy Mini robots, AI developer platform Hugging Face says it has logged $1 million worth of sales. That’s not a bad start for a company that’s just recently expanded into robotics, and is largely known for letting developers download open source AI models off the internet. […]

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