Dev reverse engineers Pollen Robotics' Microduck, ships his own Macroduck in weeks
aesposito0 · x · 2026-08-31
Developer aesposito0 reverse engineered Pollen Robotics' Microduck robot and built his own version, the Macroduck, announcing a giveaway of a few units for free. Instead of the 4-6 month preorder wait for the original, his version should ship in roughly 4 weeks, with the giveaway link in the replies.
More from Embodied
- Peking University's SimForcing distills simulation motion priors into robot world models — PekingUniversity · 2026-10-16
- NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz Expand Partnership on Next-Gen Automated Driving — nvidia · 2026-10-16
- ~25,000 Humanoid Robots Shipped in H1 2026, Over 95% from Chinese Vendors — ingliguori · 2026-10-16
- openpilot brings stoplight-stopping autonomy to a 2019 Corolla — k7agar · 2026-10-16
- Hironobu Fujiyoshi publishes deck: from AI agents to Agentic Robotics — HirokatuKataoka · 2026-10-16
- CoDA co-evolves simulation and robot policies via shared failure memory, lifting OOD success from 5.3% to 27.6% — PLAN-Lab · 2026-10-16