Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck
Pollen Robotics has introduced 'Microduck,' a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot designed for reinforcement learning. The robot is fully programmable, allowing users to train and share custom behaviors through a physics simulation environment.
Why it matters
It represents the democratization of robotics, making advanced reinforcement learning and hardware experimentation accessible to hobbyists and developers.
A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.
Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot. This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.
Every behaviour is a policy you can retrain on your own machine .
Behaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.
One step from simulation to the real thing.
Share your new behavior with the community!
Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.
A one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.
Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.
Roller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.
Flat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.
Every Microduck ships in one of four colourways . Same robot, same brains underneath - pick the shell that best fits you.
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