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Pollen MicroDuck · Recorded by the site · 31 Aug 2026
Hugging Face launches MicroDuck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot duck
Pollen Robotics, the French subsidiary Hugging Face acquired in April 2025, unveiled MicroDuck: a 25 cm, 800 g bipedal robot duck with 15 motors, a front camera plus LiDAR, and a grasping beak. It ships with 7 reinforcement-learned skills (walk, sit, kick, grab, roller skate, self-right). Policies train in MuJoCo simulation before sim-to-real deployment on a 50 Hz onboard loop; the SDK and full RL stack are open source (Apache-2.0), the hardware is not. $399 introductory price; pre-orders opened August 27, shipping planned before Christmas per The Register.
Specs and pricing come from the maker's official page and The Register's launch coverage (fetched and checked by BitShovel on 2026-08-31), not an independent review; shipping before Christmas is a plan, not a commitment, and production capacity is unverified; roller skating and grabbing are shipped controlled skills with an estimated payload of roughly 100 grams; the Nvidia acquisition rumor is unconfirmed by every party and is not a basis for decisions.
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