# NVIDIA and Hugging Face Add Models and Frameworks to the Open LeRobot Stack

The two are pushing robot foundation models and tooling into LeRobot to lower the cost of physical-AI development for the open community.

- Published: 2026-07-08T05:44:06.234Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-08/nvidia-and-hugging-face-add-models-and-frameworks-to-the-ope
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/hugging-face-lerobot-models-frameworks-open-robotics/)

NVIDIA and Hugging Face said they are bringing new models and frameworks to LeRobot, the open robotics project, to make physical-AI development cheaper and less fragmented. The premise resembles what open source did for language models. Rob…

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