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Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face launched Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot priced at $399, available for pre-order in four colorways with shipping before Christmas 2026. The robot features 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, two IMUs, and seven pre-trained moves, with a full reinforcement learning training stack on GitHub under Apache-2.0, allowing users to retrain policies in simulation and deploy them on the real robot.

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Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck
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A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.

The launch film · sound on

Roll thetape #

Waking up the duck…

Meet the twin

sim2realthat works #

Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot. This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.

Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain.

Teach it newtricks #

Every behaviour is a policy you can retrain on your own machine.

01

Train in simulation

Behaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.

02

Deploy on the robot

One step from simulation to the real thing.

03

Refine the simulation

Tune, re-train, re-deploy.

04

Publish the policy

Share your new behavior with the community!

Walk

Velocity-tracking gait.

Sit & stand

Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.

Kick

A one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.

Grab

Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.

Roller skating

Roller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.

Get back up

Flat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.

One robot, four colourways

Choose yourcolour #

Every Microduck ships in one of four colourways. Same robot, same brains underneath - pick the shell that best fits you.

Waking up the duck…

Out in the world

In the wild #

The real robot in real places - on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.

The robot, and what to add to it

Pick yourpack #

The robot is everything you need on day one. The packs add play gear and spare parts.

$399

Tech specs #

Full sheet in the press kit

  • 15
  • Motors
  • 25 cm
  • Tall
  • 800 g
  • To pick up
  • Camera
  • Plus LiDAR and two IMUs
  • 7
  • Trained moves in the box
  • 50 Hz
  • Onboard policy loop

Built in the open

Open source #

The SDK, the simulation and the full RL training stack are on GitHub. What the robot runs is what you can read, fork and retrain.

pollen-robotics/microduck

ssh microduck

$ robotctl monitor   # status of the robot$ robotctl configure # configure the robot$ robotctl update    # update the robot

Apache-2.0

The whole software stack, permissively licensed

MuJoCo

The physics sim every policy is trained in

7 policies

Every shipped move, published and retrainable

Join the flock #

Builds on show, policies to swap, help when a leg does something strange. The community lives on Discord.

End of tape · be kind, rewind

Pre-orders areopen now #

In four colourways. Ships before Christmas 2026.

Introductory price, before taxes and shipping.

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