<![CDATA[AI Hardware Companies]]>Megathread on companies making AI native devices

]]>https://forum.objects.foundation/topic/12/ai-hardware-companiesRSS for NodeFri, 16 Oct 2026 12:15:35 GMTFri, 03 Jul 2026 21:42:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to AI Hardware Companies on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:47:47 GMT]]>Sandbar

Website: https://www.sandbar.com/
Based in: New York City, USA
Founders: Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong

Stream is their product. It’s a private voice ring with a mic, touchpad, and haptic feedback.

Sandbar

]]>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/179https://forum.objects.foundation/post/179Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:47:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI Hardware Companies on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:25:58 GMT]]>Pollen Robotics

Website: https://pollen-robotics.com/
Based in: Bordeaux, France
Founders: Matthieu Lapeyre and Pierre Rouanet

Builds open-source robots for AI builders and makers, founded in 2016 by two former researchers from Inria’s Flowers team. Hugging Face acquired the company in April 2025. Reachy 2 is a full-size humanoid on a mobile base, teleoperated or controlled from Python, running ROS 2 Humble. Reachy Mini is the desktop version, sold as a roughly two-hour DIY kit at $399 with external USB compute or $499 wireless with on-board compute. Microduck is a 25 cm biped, $399 to pre-order.

Reachy Mini
Microduck

]]>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/178https://forum.objects.foundation/post/178Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:25:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to AI Hardware Companies on Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:21:15 GMT]]>Era

Website: era.world
Founders: Liz Durman, Alex Ollman, and Megan Gole
Based: San Francisco, CA / Australia

AI gadget platform. Started with a AI enabled gadget dev kit for designers allowing them to add intelligence to everyday objects. Called it Primavera: https://primavera.era.world/

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