Maker replicates Hugging Face MicroDuck robot for ~$400 with custom servo control
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-10-25
After NVIDIA showed AI agents on RTX Spark bringing Hugging Face's MicroDuck from simulation to reality ("when Jensen Huang asks for a somersault, you deliver"), maker @Kellyvai announced a completed replica: $400 BOM cost, all basic moves plus tricks trained, built on a fully unofficial custom MCU + servo scheme — with most of the effort going into tuning and training that setup.
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