Hugging Face unveils Microduck: a 25cm open-source bipedal robot you train with RL
billyuchenlin · x · 2026-08-28
Hugging Face (announced by Thomas Wolf) unveils Microduck, billed as the first truly accessible RL robot: a 25cm open-source biped with 15 actuators and a sensor suite including camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth and WiFi. It trains via reinforcement learning and ships playable out of the box with over half a dozen fun pre-trained policies.
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