Face Hugging, the start -up known for the AI programmer platform under the same name, sells a programmable 3D robotic arm that can take and place objects and perform some other basic jobs.
Called it SO-101The arm is watching Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. The Robotics Department, Lerobot, worked with the French robotics company The Robot Studio to make the SO-100 debut for about $ 100 in October.
Hugging Face has once again worked with the SO-101 robot studio, as well as the Robotics Store Wowrobo, IoT Seeedstudio material supplier and the Partabot Partabot.
Compared to the SO-100, the SO-101, which also starts at $ 100, is faster to assemble and has improved engines that reduce friction while allowing the hand to maintain its weight. The camera equipped with camera can be trained through a technical AI called aid learning, which allows it to “learn” to perform tasks such as receiving a LEGO block and placing it in a bucket.
Super excited to introduce SO-101 today by @HuggingFacein cooperation with @TherobotstudioWowrobo, Seeedstudio & Partabot.
Based on the strangely successful SO-100 (the most popular robot weapons?), SO-101 is the first weapons robot to buy AI builder. pic.twitter.com/y3ihskmigb
– Clem 🤗 (@clementDelangue) April 28 2025
$ 100 is the basic price for SO-101, to be clear. Thanks to premiums in fully assembled units and US prices in Chinese imports, prices range from $ 100 to about $ 500, depending on the supplier.
Facial hugs significantly expands robotics efforts, recently acquiring pollen robotics, a robotic start -up in France, for an unnamed amount. Led by former engineer Tesla Optimus Remi Cadene, Hugging Face’s Robotics Wing plans to sell the humanoid robot of pollen, Reachy 2 and let developers download and propose improvements to his code.
