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An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots (www.wired.com)
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Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence models and software, announced today that it has acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy 2. Hugging Face plans to sell the robot and will also allow developers to download, modify, and suggest improvements to its code.

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And if we're really talking about "open-source" and not just "open-weight", the additional scientific papers, datasets and tooling are going to help democratize the technology and even out the playing field to a degree.