Microduck robot emotion design open-sourced: 14 emotions pairing motion keyframes with sounds
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-08
Remi Fabre of Pollen Robotics open-sourced the early emotion and animation design for the Microduck robot: 14 emotions, each pairing a motion keyframe track (sampled at 0.1s) with a designed sound.
- The repo includes emotions. with per-real-robot notes, quack.py (numpy/scipy voice synth), and a gamepad patch for the Microduck runtime
- Replay by interpolating keyframes to your robot or simulator and starting the wav at soundats
- Apache-2.0 licensed, contributions welcome
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