From demo to floor: Shenzhen workers hand-assembling HuggingFace/Pollen robots
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-03
Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics has moved past the demo stage: workers in Shenzhen are now hand-assembling its robots on a production line, as shown in the attached footage.
The post highlights how far the robots have come from concept demos—and how humanoid robotics still relies heavily on manual assembly.
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