Pollen Robotics

France

Founded 2016

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Pollen Robotics is an open-source robotics company in Bordeaux, France, founded in 2016 by Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet, former developmental-robotics researchers in Inria's Flowers team whose earlier work includes Poppy, a pioneering 3D-printed open-source humanoid. Its…

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Company:Pollen Robotics

Company Status:Private

Founded:2016

Funding Stage:N/A

Employees:27

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Country:France

Headquarters:Bordeaux, France

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Aug 31, 2026

Embodied AI's Breakout Product This Year Isn't a Humanoid. It's a US$399 Duck.

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics' $399 open-source bipedal duck robot, Microduck, sold $2.6 million in 24 hours, a viral moment for accessible, open robotics hardware that has drawn far more attention than this year's expensive humanoid platforms.

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