Hugging Face News Latest Hugging Face news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 14 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Hugging Face is a New York and Paris-headquartered AI platform best known for its open-source model and dataset hub. In 2024 it acquired French humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and has since used the LeRobot project to push end-to-end machine learning for roboti...
Pollen Robotics Opens $399 Microduck Preorders To Bring Reinforcement Learning Home — Aug 27, 2026 — Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics opens preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped that walks, roller-skates and lets makers tra...Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Breached A Real Company During Irregular Cyber Test — Aug 6, 2026 — A Meta AI model briefly accessed and altered systems belonging to an outside company after a misconfigured Irregular test environment exposed it to th...Anthropic Says Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Cyber Tests — Aug 2, 2026 — Anthropic disclosed that internal cybersecurity evaluations of Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and a research model accessed the live production systems of...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...Zurich Startup mimic Robotics Unveils M1 Hand And U1 Exoskeleton For Dexterity — Jul 19, 2026 — Swiss physical AI startup mimic Robotics unveiled a full-stack dexterous manipulation platform combining the mimic hand M1, a 15-DoF tendon-driven rob...Ex-Tesla Optimus Scientist Unveils Paris Humanoid Startup UMA With $40M Seed — Jul 13, 2026 — Remi Cadene, ex-Tesla Optimus scientist and LeRobot creator at Hugging Face, unveiled Paris-based UMA and its Northstar humanoid robot, backed by a $4...MACHINA Physical AI Summit Debuts in Paris With NVIDIA, DeepMind, 1X — Jul 11, 2026 — Europe's first dedicated Physical AI event debuted at Station F in Paris on July 7 with talks from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, 1X, Apptronik, Boston Dyna...Ex-Tesla Optimus Scientist Unveils Paris Humanoid Startup UMA and Its Northstar Robot — Jul 7, 2026 — UMA, founded by former Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadène, unveiled the design of its Northstar humanoid and a Real-Time Learning architecture built...NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Teleop to LeRobot — Jul 7, 2026 — The July 7 collaboration pushes NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7, Isaac Teleop and, soon, Cosmos 3 into Hugging Face's open LeRobot library, giving 3 million ro...Netherlands Opens First Humanoid Application Centre At MICS Schiedam — Jul 7, 2026 — The Humanoid Application Centre at Schiedam's Mechatronics Innovation Campus is Europe's newest hub for putting humanoid robots to work in constructio...Robbyant Ships LingBot-Depth 2.0 And Boundary-Centric LingBot-Vision For Robots — Jul 7, 2026 — Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, halving depth error on transparent and reflective scenes and roll...Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat-2.0 Trained on Chinese Chips — Jul 5, 2026 — Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter agentic coding model trained end-to-end on a 50,000-chip domestic accelerator cluster,...Google Releases Gemma 4 Open Models for Agentic Reasoning at Up to 256K Context — Jun 1, 2026 — Google has released Gemma 4, a four-model open-weights family with up to 256K context, native vision and audio inputs and a 31B dense variant that cra...Hugging Face Open-Sources LeRobot Humanoid, a $2,500 DIY Bipedal Robot — May 30, 2026 — Hugging Face has released LeRobot Humanoid, a fully open-source bipedal robot that costs roughly US$2,500 in parts to build and ships as a complete ha...