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Northstar robot plans unveiled
UMA formally unveils its lightweight humanoid robot Northstar and reveals it is in talks with 50 potential customers.
UMA emerges from stealth
The Paris-based startup announces its existence and investor backing from Greycroft, Red River West, Kima Ventures, and Factorial.
Cadène leads LeRobot at Hugging Face
After leaving Tesla, Cadène spearheads the creation of LeRobot, an open-source toolkit that becomes a global standard for robot learning.
Cadène joins Tesla
Rémi Cadène begins work on AI for Autopilot and later builds the first neural networks for the Optimus humanoid robot.
UMA's humanoid robot Northstar will be powered by AI expertise honed at Tesla and Hugging Face's open-source LeRobot toolkit, leveraging neural network architectures that could accelerate humanoid dexterity and vision systems.