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Microduck is a compact biped robot from Pollen Robotics, featuring open-source software for creating and training behaviors in simulation and on the real robot.

Don't let the tiny duck fool you… there's a serious robot hiding inside. Meet Microduck from Pollen Robotics. It is a compact biped robot packed with 15 motors, a camera, ToF LiDAR, IMUs, microphones, a speaker and an articulated beak. And the best part? The software is open source. You can create behaviors, train policies in simulation and bring them to the real robot. A tiny duck learning to walk, crouch, grasp objects and recover from falls? That's not just cute. That's a pretty fun robotics platform.
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Don’t let the tiny duck fool you… there’s a serious robot hiding inside.

Meet Microduck from Pollen Robotics.

It is a compact biped robot packed with 15 motors, a camera, ToF LiDAR, IMUs, microphones, a speaker and an articulated beak.

And the best part? The software is open source.

You can create behaviors, train policies in simulation and bring them to the real robot.

A tiny duck learning to walk, crouch, grasp objects and recover from falls?

That’s not just cute. That’s a pretty fun robotics platform.

Pollen Robotics (@pollenrobotics): We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to.

Train it in simulation, run it on the real thing. Meet Microduck 🦆

$399, shipping before Christmas.

https://t.co/RflJlIUwOu

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