A developer building a real-time Persian voice conversation pipeline for a Reachy Mini robot is seeking advice on running both the LLM and text-to-speech locally on a GTX 1650 Ti with 4GB of VRAM, aft…
Shenava-Koochik, a 114M-parameter Persian streaming ASR model from Reza2kn's Shenava collection, is not the compute bottleneck in Persian speech pipelines; the LLM decision/intent stage is where failu…
Microduck, a $399 open-source robot duck from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, sold out its first run within days, surpassing $5 million in sales in its first week. The 25 cm biped robot features 15 …
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics team opened pre-orders on August 27, 2026, for Microduck, a $399 open-source 25 cm bipedal robot whose movements are neural policies trained in a physics simulator and e…
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf said customers placed more than $2.6 million in orders for the $399 Microduck robot within its first 24 hours on sale, causing a backlog that delays new orders by 4–…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck, a 25 cm tall biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, a depth sensor, two motion sensors, and an articulated beak, designed for physical AI experi…
Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a $400 bipedal duck-shaped robot with 15 motors, a camera, a depth sensor, and an articulated beak, available for pre-order starting today. The robot can walk, sit…
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have unveiled Microduck, a $399 waddling robot toy with a camera eye, beak grabber, and motion sensors, available for preorder with delivery by end of year in North Am…
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot that can waddle, pick up objects, and roller skate, with orders shipping before Christmas. The 25-centimeter-tall robot, developed wi…
Hugging Face unveiled the $399 Microduck waddling robot on August 27, 2026, expanding its consumer hardware lineup after acquiring Pollen Robotics in April 2025 and launching the $299 Reachy Mini in J…
Google AI Edge's LiteRT and LiteRT-LM enable deployment of Gemma 4 E2B on Raspberry Pi 5, achieving 99 tokens/sec prefill and 9 tokens/sec decode with a peak memory footprint of 1432 MB, powering the …
The Autonomous Lamp, an assembled open-source AI desk robot running Autonomous OS, ranks first in a 2026 guide to open-source desk robots, ahead of the Reachy Mini, StackChan, Doly, and Petoi Bittle. …
Hugging Face has released an open-source server that replicates OpenAI's Realtime API protocol, enabling developers to run a local speech-to-speech pipeline compatible with OpenAI's WebSocket interfac…
A developer built an open-source robotics tech tree to help learners navigate the complex field of physical AI, mapping skills from blinking an LED to autonomous humanoids. The project, launched as a …
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics demonstrated a fully local conversational AI pipeline on the Reachy Mini desktop robot, using Silero VAD v5, Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3, Gemma 4 or Qwen3-4B LLM, and Qwen3-T…
Pollen Robotics released remote tool support for the Reachy Mini robot, allowing users to add third-party capabilities like web search and weather lookups with a single command. The new system enables…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have released a fully local speech-to-speech pipeline for the Reachy Mini robot, eliminating the need for cloud servers or API keys. The open-source stack runs entirel…