Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: $400 Open-Source Bipedal Robot
huggingface · x · 2026-08-27
Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot priced under $400. It features 15 actuators, packed with sensors (camera, LiDAR, etc.), and is designed to be trained via reinforcement learning. The robot comes with over a dozen pre-trained policies for actions like walking, roller-skating, and object manipulation.
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