Pollen Robotics' open-source biped duck robot Microduck hits 11.4k GitHub stars
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-26
Pollen Robotics released episode 4 ("Anger") of its live-action robot series starring Microduck and Reachy Mini, with both robots' software open source. Microduck is a tiny biped robot driven by reinforcement learning policies; the Apache-2.0 repo has reached 11.4k stars and 1.5k forks, covering kinematics, odometry, IMU, ToF and more.
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