Pierre Rouanet, co-founder and CTO of Pollen Robotics, and Elsa Kervella, the company’s marketing and sales lead, discuss Reachy’s manipulation, design and development at Pollen Robotics.
Rouanet says Reachy’s human-inspired arms support a wide range of manipulation tasks. Its simple grippers can pick up and handle objects.
Rouanet argues that a body resembling a person’s may help people feel more comfortable around a robot in everyday settings. He also sees value in collecting comparable demonstrations from people and robots, then combining the data to improve manipulation models.
The tele-operated robot used in a competition was an early version of Reachy’s next model, and it earned second place. Rouanet notes that Pollen Robotics competed as a company while continuing to run its business, unlike many teams from research labs focused on the event.
Pollen Robotics reworked the arms to better match human movement and support more capable manipulation. Rouanet says Reachy’s mismatched eye sizes give it a distinctive appearance and help signal that it is a robot that may need to learn alongside its users.
Rouanet expects robots to appear more often in everyday spaces and says they need to work around people and earn their acceptance. Pollen Robotics aims to make robots that people feel comfortable having nearby.
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Pierre Rouanet, co-founder of Pollen Robotics, discusses how AI is changing robotics and what it will take to bring useful robots into homes and workplaces, speaking at a PyTorch event.
Lukas Ziegler, a robotics creator visiting Pollen Robotics in Bordeaux with the company’s team, explores how Reachy 2 and Reachy Mini are built, operated, and designed for open-source robotics.
Santiago Pavon, growth lead at Pollen Robotics, discusses open-source robotics, Reachy 2, and ways to make embodied AI more accessible with the Humanoids Summit host in London.
