Hugging Face Frames Open Source as Critical to Robotics AI

Open-source is critical for robotics AI. It means a student, a researcher or a startup can build on years of progress and contribute something the whole community can use rather than concentrating everything in a few companies building a black-box robot.

That’s why we’re building @huggingface into the platform for open-source robotics AI! Amazing to see the progress we've made in the six months and it's accelerating!

• Almost 100,000 public robotics datasets on http://hf.co/datasets, up 48%
• Over 30,000 public robotics models, up 41%
• Microduck and Reachy mini, our open-source robots became the most popular robot of 2026 (probably ending the year with 50,000+ sold and 20,000+ shipped)
• We’re a founding partner of @RoboColosseum, evaluating robots across 140+ real-world scenes. Every run is published publicly on HF, including failures, so everyone can learn from what actually happens.

And @LeRobotHF got downloaded over 1M times and v0.7.0 just landed with new world action models, interactive robot control and remote GPU inference: https://huggingface.co/blog/lerobot/lerobot-release-v070!

Huge thanks to everyone making this happen 🤗🦾