Microduck: An Open-Source 25cm Bipedal Robot for RL Training
xennygrimmato_ · x · 2026-08-28
Microduck is a 25cm tiny open-source bipedal robot equipped with 15 actuators and a suite of sensors including a camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. It is designed for reinforcement learning training by users and comes with more than half a dozen pre-trained policies for immediate use.
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