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Sep 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Microduck: $399 Open‑Source Robot Duck Enables Reinforcement‑Learning AI on Real Hardware

The $399 Microduck robot, built by Pollen Robotics under Hugging Face, is a compact 25 cm, 800 g open‑source platform that lets developers train reinforcement‑learning behaviors in simulation and deploy them to a real‑world duck‑shaped robot equipped with cameras, lidar, NFC, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and a 1 GB memory stack.