Microduck founder clarifies viral Jensen Huang demo was human-teleoperated
FlolightC · x · 2026-10-24
The viral demo of four Microduck robots alongside Jensen Huang hit 60M+ views, but founder Remi Fabre clarifies it wasn't fully autonomous — each robot was piloted by an engineer, with motions trained via reinforcement learning. He details what Microduck can and can't do today, and notes sales are outpacing even its launch run.
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