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Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI
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- Sep 9, 2025
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Summary
Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explains how his company is applying the same community-driven approach that made transformers accessible to everyone to the emerging field of robotics. Thomas discusses LeRobot, Hugging Face's ambitious project to democratize robotics through open-source tools, datasets, and affordable hardware. He shares his vision for turning millions of software developers into roboticists, the challenges of data scarcity in robotics versus language models, and why he believes we're at the same inflection point for physical AI that we were for LLMs just a few years ago. Hosted by: Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital