Microduck Pre-Orders Surpass 20,000 After Jensen Huang Keynote Demo
The $399 robot's order spike followed a single stage demo rather than any product change, and it lands at a developer whose parent Hugging Face NVIDIA acquired in September 2026.
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Pre-orders for the duck-shaped robot Microduck surpassed 20,000 units after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang operated one by voice command on stage at GTC 2026 in Berlin. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue posted that the keynote drove the surge and said Pollen Robotics, the developer, needs to grow its team. Microduck is 25 cm tall, weighs 800 g, carries 15 motors plus a camera and sensors, and costs $399 before tax and shipping.
Huang handled the robot by voice during the keynote at GTC 2026 in Berlin. Clips of the segment circulated mainly on social media, and orders climbed past the 20,000 mark in the days after. Delangue's posts frame the jump as a direct result of the demo and add that Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face are hiring across all roles to keep up. The unit ships with walking, sitting, squatting, getting up from a fall, and roller-skating available out of the box, and users can teach it new actions and share them with the community. Delivery is scheduled for Christmas.
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