# Pollen Robotics gives its $399 Microduck an Isaac Lab gait-training path

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/pollen-robotics-microduck-isaac-lab-sim-to-real-training>
> Published: 2026-10-21 18:06:09+00:00

# Pollen Robotics gives its $399 Microduck an Isaac Lab gait-training path

**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.**

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Primary source: [Hugging Face Newsroom](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/microduck-isaac-lab-sim-to-real)

## Why it matters

Pollen 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.

[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.…

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