Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: Accessible Open-Source Bipedal Robot
reach_vb · x · 2026-08-27
Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 25 cm tiny open-source bipedal robot. It features 15 actuators and is packed with sensors including a camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and WiFi. Users can train the robot themselves using reinforcement learning, or it can be played with out of the box thanks to more than half a dozen pre-trained policies.
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