Microduck: An open-source 25cm bipedal robot for RL training released
craigsdennis · x · 2026-08-28
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf announced the release of Microduck, the first truly accessible RL robot. It is a 25cm open-source bipedal robot with 15 actuators and packed with sensors like camera, speaker, and LiDAR. It supports self-training via reinforcement learning and comes with playful pre-trained policies out of the box.
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