Pollen Robotics Launches $399 Bipedal Robot Microduck
maddiehfaulkner · x · 2026-08-30
Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 bipedal robot. It stands 25cm tall, weighs under 800g, and features 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, and two IMUs. It ships with 7 pre-trained behaviors, and its SDK, simulator, and RL pipeline are open-sourced on GitHub.
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