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Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck
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.
Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.
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.
The real robot in real places - on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.