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Rémi Cadene

Rémi Cadene portrait

CEO and co-founder at UMA

Cadene built early neural networks for Tesla Optimus and created LeRobot at Hugging Face, an open-source stack spanning robot control, datasets, and learning algorithms. At UMA he is building general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots.

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Background

Current role
CEO and co-founder Oct 2025-present
Previously
2024-2025Principal Research Scientist,
2021-2024Staff Scientist,
2020-2021Postdoctoral Researcher,
2020-2021Postdoctoral Researcher,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: July 16, 2026

News 1

moveRémi Cadene joins UMA from Tesla

Rémi Cadene, a former Tesla scientist who worked on the Optimus robot, unveiled plans as CEO and co-founder of Paris-based AI robotics startup UMA for its Northstar humanoid robot.

July 7, 2026

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