Robot duck performs backflips, trained entirely on a MacBook Pro
huggingface · x · 2026-09-01
Jonathan Hawkins shared a robot duck performing clean backflips, trained entirely on a MacBook Pro. He plans to open source the repository soon, demonstrating the potential of local compute for embodied AI training.
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