768 tiny Pollen robots walk a simulated hospital ward on one GPU
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-11-12
A single ICU bay's open 3D asset runs 256 copies on one GPU, each with 3 Microducks — the open robot from Pollen Robotics — for 768 robots walking in physics simulation; 766 of 768 were still up after 14 seconds. The author argues this is how hospital robots will learn before ever touching a patient.
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