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While VCs pour billions into humanoids, Hugging Face's tiny open-source robot quietly passed $1M in sales

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I just wrote about the billion-dollar rounds flooding into humanoid robotics. Here is the story from the other end of the scale, and I find it more encouraging. Hugging Face's open-source robot, a 25-centimeter bipedal machine with fifteen actuators and a sensor kit that includes a camera, speaker,…

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  1. 2026-08-29 15:59 · DEV Community — AI
    While VCs pour billions into humanoids, Hugging Face's tiny open-source robot quietly passed $1M in sales

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