Thom Wolf unveils Microduck: an open-source bipedal robot for RL training
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-27
Thom Wolf has announced Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot packed with 15 actuators and sensors like cameras, LiDAR, and Bluetooth. Designed for accessibility in reinforcement learning, users can train it themselves, or play with it out of the box using pre-trained policies.
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