Nvidia is now a humanoid robot designer. That's the real takeaway from this news.
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93B. Hugging Face is the largest open-model and dataset hub, the "GitHub of AI," with 3M+ models and 18M+ developers, robotics included.
But here's the interesting part: Hugging Face has a serious robotics team from its acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which designs and builds open-source hardware platforms for robots, including humanoids (Reachy).
Pollen team now gets the backing of the world's most valuable company. $NVDA