AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount.

It’s really important for robotics to be as open source as possible,” says Clément Delangue, chief executive of Hugging Face.

The race to put humanoid robots into mass production has intensified over the past week, as companies in both the US and China made a string of announcements that convinced analysts the technology ...