Open-source bipedal robot Microduck supports RL training for under $400
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-08-27
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf unveiled Microduck, a 25cm open-source bipedal robot. It features 15 actuators and multiple sensors (camera, LiDAR, etc.), supports user reinforcement learning training, and comes with over a dozen pre-trained policies for actions like walking, skating, and object picking. It is priced at under $400.
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