Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

Aug 27, 2026 05:57 PM - 3 days ago 12

A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself pinch reinforcement learning. Playable retired of the box.

The Microduck squad

The motorboat movie · sound on

Roll thetape

Meet the twin

sim2realthat works

Trained successful sim, deployed connected the existent robot. This is the simulated copy the ducks were trained on.

Fun retired of the box. Yours to retrain.

Teach it newtricks

Every behaviour is simply a argumentation you tin retrain connected your ain machine.

01

Train successful simulation

Behaviours are learned successful physics sim, connected your instrumentality aliases connected Hugging Face Jobs.

02

Deploy connected the robot

One measurement from simulation to the existent thing.

03

Refine the simulation

Tune, re-train, re-deploy.

04

Publish the policy

Share your caller behaviour pinch the community!

Walk

Velocity-tracking gait.

Sit & stand

Sits down, holds the pose, stands backmost up connected its own.

Kick

A one-shot boot, past consecutive backmost to walking.

Grab

Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops backmost upright.

Roller skating

Roller skating locomotion erstwhile the skates are equipped.

Get backmost up

Flat connected its backmost to standing, each by itself, fresh for the adjacent command.

One robot, 4 colourways

Choose yourcolour

Every Microduck ships successful 1 of four colourways. Same robot, same brains underneath - prime the ammunition that champion fits you.

Out successful the world

In the wild

The real robot successful existent places - connected desks, connected the pitch, retired astatine aureate hour.

The robot, and what to adhd to it

Pick yourpack

The robot is everything you request connected time one. The packs adhd play cogwheel and spare parts.

The Microduck robot opinionated connected a desk, drawn arsenic a comic panel

$399

The robot

Microduck

In the box

Robot, battery, USB-C cable, crippled controller.

A dual-slot artillery charger, 2 spare batteries and a USB-C cable, drawn arsenic a comic panel

$39

Dual charger, 2x batteries.

Three spare motors, centrifugal cables, 2 batteries, a charger, 10 NFC tags, a Hugging Face sticker, a screwdriver and spare screws, drawn arsenic a comic panel

$119

3x spare motors, 5x centrifugal cables, 2x batteries, dual charger, 10x NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack.

Two yellowish roller attachments, a ball, a laser pen, an NFC polaroid and 10 NFC tags, drawn arsenic a comic panel

$39

Laser pointer, NFC polaroid, 2x rollers, ball, 10x NFC tags.

15Motors

25 cmTall

800 gTo prime up

CameraPlus LiDAR and 2 IMUs

7Trained moves successful the box

50 HzOnboard argumentation loop

Built successful the open

Open source

The SDK, the simulation and the afloat RL training stack are connected GitHub. What the robot runs is what you tin read, fork and retrain.

pollen-robotics/microduck

$ robotctl monitor # position of the robot$ robotctl configure # configure the robot$ robotctl update # update the robot

Apache-2.0

The full package stack, permissively licensed

MuJoCo

The physics sim each argumentation is trained in

7 policies

Every shipped move, published and retrainable

Join the flock

Builds connected show, policies to swap, thief erstwhile a limb does thing strange. The organization lives connected Discord.

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Pre-orders areopen now

In 4 colourways. Ships earlier Christmas 2026.
Introductory price, earlier taxes and shipping.

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