Hugging Face Unveils Microduck, a $399 Open-Source Duck Robot with Full RL Stack
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-09-01
Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot shipping before Christmas.
- 25 cm tall, equipped with a camera, lidar, and dual IMUs
- Behaviors are trained via reinforcement learning in simulation, then deployed directly onto the physical robot (sim2real)
- Built by Pollen Robotics, which Hugging Face acquired in 2025
- Full SDK, simulation, and RL training stack are available on GitHub
Related event: Hugging Face's $399 open-source Microduck robot tops $1M sales in 7 hours(3 posts)→
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