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

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.

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. By RuntimeWire Staff https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff · Published · Updated 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.… When 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.