Pollen's Open-Source Humanoid Microduck Is Selling One Unit Every 5 Seconds
LKama07 · reddit · 2026-08-28
A Pollen Robotics engineer announced the new Microduck robot on Reddit, with pre-orders running at one unit every 5 seconds—beyond all expectations.
- Microduck is a full bipedal humanoid with an open-source software stack and a surprisingly solid sim2real pipeline;
- The author argues it's more than a toy: within months, thousands of enthusiasts will run reinforcement learning on real hardware and generate new behaviors—a sharp contrast with the LLM landscape dominated by a few giants;
- With coding agents now strong enough, almost anyone can contribute, and he expects the pace of behavioral improvement to accelerate;
- He also briefly acknowledges rumors of Nvidia acquiring Pollen without elaborating.
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