Open-source Microduck teaches robots to play football, easing entry to autonomous robotics
tristanbob · x · 2026-09-04
Developer Sanjil shared training a robot to play football with the open-source Microduck project, crediting Hugging Face and Clem Delangue. Reposter tristanbob believes Microduck will help a lot of people program their first autonomous robot, as open tooling dramatically lowers the barrier to embodied robotics development.
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