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Open-source Microduck robot enables sim-to-real walking policy training

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Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have released Microduck, an affordable open-source bipedal robot. Developers can now train walking policies for Microduck using NVIDIA's Isaac Lab and Newton simulation frameworks. The trained policies can be exported as ONNX files and deployed onto the physical Microduck robot, with options to share them on the Hugging Face Hub or compete in the Microduck Arena. AI

IMPACT Enables developers to train and deploy walking policies for a physical robot using simulation, accelerating robotics development.

RANK_REASON This is a product release and integration tutorial for an open-source robot, not a frontier model release or significant industry event.

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Open-source Microduck robot enables sim-to-real walking policy training

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  1. Hugging Face Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

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