first test in plugging the $100 Amazing Hands on a (cute) humanoid instead of grippers - pretty happy about it

Hand: github.com/pollen-robot...

Humanoid: www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy/

wow, total BoM cost $660, folks

open-source community >> closed source hyped robots

Read more at Xlerobot.readthedocs.io

London's robot conference is going crazy over it!

Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics

A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community.

=> discord.com/invite/jsvMR...

We've seen nothing yet! We hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event with @robertkeus.bsky.social this weekend (h/t
@antonosika.bsky.social and Lovable)

takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined

and they grow up knowing they can build anything!

[Past weekends side project] A quick introduction to contextual speech models

I made some interactive visualisations to explain a bit better how recent contextual speech models and audio tokenization work (e.g. Sesame's demo).

being in a robotics lab in 2025

open-source hardware + good RL + impressive people => lot of fun

join the OpenDuck community to build yours: discord.com/invite/UtJZs...

Fascinating example of applied research!

No. 1 question we get with +1.5M models on the hub: how to find the best one for your use-case?

Here comes YourBench 🪄 a research work led by Sumuk Shashidhar, Alina Lozovskaya and team.

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We've just released the new Spaces search and it's quite mind blowing

Explore over 400k AI Apps in the most intuitive way

background removal, image-to-3D, comic factory, sound transcription, image editing, clothes virtual try-on, etc

All made by AI builders for AI builders

huggingface.co/spaces

New LLM evals entering and leaving the field saturated before the paper is even published in ML conferences

📸 matt_mccreary1