Hugging Face releases microduck, a 10-inch open-source biped robot you train with RL

Terminator857 · reddit · 2026-08-27

Hugging Face has released microduck, a 10-inch open-source bipedal robot with 15 actuators and a rich sensor suite (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi) that owners train themselves using reinforcement learning. Redditors see it as a sign that "local Llama robotics" is becoming practical.

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