{"slug": "pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck", "title": "Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# MicroduckMade to move · Ready to learn\n\nA 25 cm **open-source** biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.\n\nThe launch film · sound on\n\n## Roll thetape\n\nWaking up the duck…\n\nMeet the twin\n\n## sim2realthat works\n\n**Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot.** This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.\n\nFun out of the box. Yours to retrain.\n\n## Teach it newtricks\n\nEvery behaviour is a policy you can **retrain on your own machine**.\n\n01\n\nTrain in simulation\n\nBehaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.\n\n02\n\nDeploy on the robot\n\nOne step from simulation to the real thing.\n\n03\n\nRefine the simulation\n\nTune, re-train, re-deploy.\n\n04\n\nPublish the policy\n\nShare your new behavior with the community!\n\nWalk\n\nVelocity-tracking gait.\n\nSit & stand\n\nSits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.\n\nKick\n\nA one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.\n\nGrab\n\nDips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.\n\nRoller skating\n\nRoller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.\n\nGet back up\n\nFlat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.\n\nOne robot, four colourways\n\n## Choose yourcolour\n\nEvery Microduck ships in one of **four colourways**. Same robot, **same brains underneath** - pick the shell that best fits you.\n\nWaking up the duck…\n\nOut in the world\n\n## In the wild\n\nThe **real robot in real places** - on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.\n\nThe robot, and what to add to it\n\n## Pick yourpack\n\nThe robot is **everything you need on day one**. The packs add play gear and spare parts.\n\n$399\n\n## Tech specs\n\n[Full sheet in the press kit](/microduck/press-kit)\n\n- 15\n- Motors\n- 25 cm\n- Tall\n- 800 g\n- To pick up\n- Camera\n- Plus LiDAR and two IMUs\n- 7\n- Trained moves in the box\n- 50 Hz\n- Onboard policy loop\n\nBuilt in the open\n\n## Open source\n\nThe SDK, the simulation and **the full RL training stack** are on GitHub. What the robot runs is what you can **read, fork and retrain**.\n\n[pollen-robotics/microduck](https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck)\n\nssh microduck\n\n``` bash\n$ robotctl monitor   # status of the robot$ robotctl configure # configure the robot$ robotctl update    # update the robot\n```\n\nApache-2.0\n\nThe whole software stack, permissively licensed\n\nMuJoCo\n\nThe physics sim every policy is trained in\n\n7 policies\n\nEvery shipped move, published and retrainable\n\n## Join the flock\n\nBuilds on show, **policies to swap**, help when a leg does something strange. The community lives on Discord.\n\nEnd of tape · be kind, rewind\n\n## Pre-orders areopen now\n\nIn four colourways. Ships before Christmas 2026.\n\nIntroductory price, before taxes and shipping.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck", "canonical_source": "https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/", "published_at": "2026-08-27 10:57:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 11:19:43.999968+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics"], "entities": ["Pollen Robotics", "Hugging Face", "Microduck", "GitHub", "MuJoCo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pollen-robotics-hugging-face-microduck.jsonld"}}