Pollen Robotics Reachy 2

An open-source upper-body humanoid robot from France's Pollen Robotics, built for VR teleoperation and research.

Reachy 2 is an open-source research humanoid that France's Pollen Robotics launched in October 2024; Hugging Face acquired Pollen in April 2025. It's an upper-body-only humanoid: two 7-degree-of-freedom arms, each able to lift about 3 kg, using Pollen's own Orbita parallel joints at the head and wrists, with parallel-jaw grippers at the ends. The head carries an RGB-D camera and a time-of-flight depth sensor, and an optional mobile base with three omnidirectional wheels and lidar can be added. The software runs on ROS 2 with a Python interface, and it ships with VR teleoperation support, making it easy to collect demonstration data for training imitation-learning policies. The full version with the mobile base has reportedly been priced at over $70,000.

ExampleA researcher wears a VR headset to teleoperate a Reachy 2 folding laundry and tidying a desk, then uses the recorded data to train policies such as ACT with LeRobot.

Also called

Reachy

Related

Pollen Robotics · Hugging Face · Pollen Robotics Reachy Mini · Upper-body Humanoid Robot · VR Teleoperation · LeRobot

Sources

Reachy 2 - The open-source humanoid for embodied AI (Pollen Robotics)
Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup (TechCrunch)

As of

2025-04