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.

MicroduckMade to move · Ready to learn 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 /microduck/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 https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck ssh microduck bash $ 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.