Robotics Hugging Face Drops a $2,500 3D-Printed Open-Source Bipedal Humanoid: LeRobot Humanoid Ships as a Full-Stack Build (Hardware BOM + Simulator + Training Zoo) the Same Week Figure Is Valued at $39B and Apptronik Sits on $935M Series A — May 21, 2026
Hugging Face's LeRobot team released a $2,500 3D-printed bipedal humanoid you can build, repair, simulate, and train — the same week Figure trades at $39B and Apptronik at $5B. The open-vs-closed split in humanoid AI just got priced.