Pollen Robotics' $399 open-source biped Microduck nears 20,000 pre-orders after Jensen Huang keynote
yacinelearning · x · 2026-10-23
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says the Jensen Huang keynote effect pushed Microduck pre-orders toward 20,000+, likely making it the best-selling robot of 2026. Microduck is a 25cm open-source biped from Pollen Robotics × Hugging Face, priced at $399 before tax/shipping, trained with reinforcement learning: behaviors are policies trained in sim (locally or via Hugging Face Jobs), deployed to the real robot in one step, and publishable back to the community. It walks, sits, kicks, grabs with its beak, roller-skates and gets up on its own. The retweeter jokes he'll never receive his duck thanks to Jensen.
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