Hugging Face's Thom Wolf unveils Microduck, a 25cm open-source bipedal RL robot
psuraj28 · x · 2026-08-28
Thom Wolf announced Microduck, billed as the first truly accessible reinforcement-learning robot. The 25cm open-source biped packs 15 actuators and a rich sensor suite (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi), and is trained by the user with reinforcement learning.
It's playable out of the box with more than half a dozen fun pre-trained policies. Users rushed to preorder.
Related event: Hugging Face and Pollen Unveil $399 Open-Source Bipedal Robot Microduck(64 posts)→
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