Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics Unveils Duck-Shaped Robot Microduck
Microduck extends Pollen Robotics' line beyond desk-bound interaction robots into a low-cost, mobile platform for testing physical AI, building on the 10,000-unit success of Reachy Mini.
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Pollen Robotics, a subsidiary of Hugging Face, announced Microduck, a 25 cm tall bipedal duck robot that walks, skates, and grasps objects with its beak. Priced at $399, it targets developers with pre-trained actions, an SDK, and reinforcement learning tools. It follows the earlier HopeJR and Reachy Mini humanoid robots.
Pollen Robotics, the robotics startup under Hugging Face, has announced Microduck, a bipedal duck robot about 25 cm tall and weighing under 800 g. It carries 15 motors, a camera, a depth sensor, two inertial measurement units, and an articulated beak for grasping objects. The robot can walk, sit, crouch, stand up from a fall, and roller skate.
Microduck centers on movement rather than conversation, so it beeps and plays melodies but cannot talk. It ships with pre-trained actions controllable by gamepad, while the SDK and reinforcement learning tools live in GitHub repositories. Four colors are available: Sky, Graphite, Cream, and Lavender, at $399 excluding tax and shipping.
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