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Hugging Face launches $399 open-source Microduck robot trained with RL

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Hugging Face's robotics team, Pollen Robotics, has launched Microduck, an open-source 25 cm bipedal robot available for pre-order at $399. This robot is designed for dynamic movement and self-recovery, with all its behaviors trained using reinforcement learning in a physics simulator. The training environments, reward functions, and sim-to-real transfer methods are publicly available on GitHub, allowing users to train and customize the robot's actions. AI

IMPACT Enables hobbyists and researchers to experiment with RL-trained bipedal robots, potentially accelerating sim-to-real transfer research.

RANK_REASON This is a product launch of a robotics kit, not a core AI model release or research paper.

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Hugging Face launches $399 open-source Microduck robot trained with RL

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Michal Sutter ·

    Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning

    <p>Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, opened pre-orders for Microduck — a 25 cm bipedal robot where every movement is a neural policy trained in MuJoCo and exported to ONNX. At $399, it puts the full sim-to-real loop on a desk: 15 motors, camera, LiDAR, …

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 399 USD open-source bipedal robot trained with reinforcement learning. The 25cm robot features 15 motors, camera and LiDA

    Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 399 USD open-source bipedal robot trained with reinforcement learning. The 25cm robot features 15 motors, camera and LiDAR sensors, and can walk, kick, roller-skate and recover from falls. Training environments and the sim-to-real recipe are…

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