Hugging Face Launches Microduck: A $399 Open-Source Robot for RL Education
huggingface · x · 2026-08-27
Hugging Face launched Microduck, a tiny open-source robot:
- Costs $399, stands 10 inches tall, weighs under 2 lbs.
- Includes camera, microphone, speaker, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and LiDAR, plus an articulated beak that doubles as a small gripper.
- Aimed at education and reinforcement learning: users teach it new behaviors instead of running fixed programs, training in simulation and deploying on hardware.
- It follows Reachy Mini and its robot app ecosystem, as HF pushes beyond models and datasets into open robotics.
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