{"slug": "pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path", "title": "Pollen Robotics gives its $399 Microduck an Isaac Lab gait-training path", "summary": "Pollen Robotics has published a simulation-to-real workflow for training its $399 Microduck biped in Isaac Lab, using a 4,096-environment training recipe, ONNX export and deployment steps for running a learned gait on the physical robot, according to a Hugging Face Newsroom post. The release extends co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre's open-robotics project from shared hardware to shared locomotion policies, with GPU requirements and real-world transfer remaining the practical limits.", "body_md": "# Pollen Robotics gives its $399 Microduck an Isaac Lab gait-training path\n\n**Co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre's open-robotics bet now has a 4,096-environment training recipe, ONNX export and steps for deploying a learned gait on the physical biped.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n        · Updated \n\nPrimary source: [Hugging Face Newsroom](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/microduck-isaac-lab-sim-to-real)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nPollen is turning an affordable biped into a hands-on test of open robotics: developers can train, export and share locomotion policies, while the GPU requirement and real-world transfer still set the practical limits.\n\n[Pollen Robotics](https://pollen-robotics.com/?ref=runtimewire) has published a path for training its [Microduck](https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/?ref=runtimewire) biped in simulation and running the resulting walking policy on the physical robot, extending co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre's long-running open-robotics project from shared hardware into shared behaviors.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/pollen-robotics-microduck-isaac-lab-sim-to-real-training", "published_at": "2026-10-21 18:06:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-21 21:12:51.005317+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Pollen Robotics", "Microduck", "Matthieu Lapeyre", "Isaac Lab", "Hugging Face", "NVIDIA", "ONNX"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-gives-its-399-microduck-an-isaac-lab-gait-training-path.jsonld"}}