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An open-source biped robot called Microduck that uses reinforcement learning policies for movement and is available for purchase.

开源机器鸭,想要一个华强北版本! https://t.co/8ixGeHanO4 https://t.co/zTQiwPJ7s0
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开源机器鸭,想要一个华强北版本!

https://t.co/8ixGeHanO4 https://t.co/zTQiwPJ7s0


pollen-robotics/microduck

Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck

microduck

Microduck

A tiny biped robot that moves using reinforcement learning policies.

Get yours here · Cheat sheet · Training the policies · How it works · Contributing

CI


This repo is the duck’s brain. About 25 cm and 800 g of robot, run by a handful of daemons on a Rockchip RK3566: a 50 Hz control loop driving fifteen servos from neural policies, the radios and the camera, and the update machinery that gets new software onto a robot without bricking it.

Everything you need to run a Microduck is here. If you want one, get yours here.

The policies it runs are trained next door, in microduck_rl — MuJoCo and PPO, the sim2real recipe, and the export to ONNX that this repo loads.

It does things

It walks. Pick up a gamepad and drive. It rolls. Put wheels on, hold D-pad up, and it loads the other brain.
It picks things up. Beak to the floor, one button. It gets back up. Knock it over and it stands itself up.

It also sits, kicks a ball, rolls forward on command, and quacks in a voice that is its own.

Where to find things

You have a duck

Cheat sheetEvery robotctl command: drive, configure, voice, chorale, theremin, wifi, updates, logs. Start here.
GamepadThe full button mapping, and pairing a pad — once per pad, plus what to do when it will not bond.
duckctlThe robot from a laptop over Bluetooth, with no network and no ssh.
UpdatesInstall, roll back, pin. Every update is verified, health-gated and reversible.

You are building on it

microduck_rlWhere the policies come from: MuJoCo, PPO, domain randomisation, and the ONNX export this repo loads.
How it worksThe whole system on one page — the daemons, the bus, how an update reaches a robot — then a page per part.
Set up a dev boardFrom a blank board to a robot that takes branch builds.
Dev cheat sheetBranch builds, release candidates, driving from a laptop, and the restart traps after an update.
Push your branchBuild on your machine, install over ssh, about a minute.
CONTRIBUTING.mdBuilding, testing, layout, conventions, releasing.
Docs indexEverything, including the design pages and the open problems.

Under the hood

Rust, no framework, one workspace. robotd owns the control loop and the motor bus; updaterd installs signed releases and rolls them back when a robot comes up unhealthy; configd owns wifi and identity; btd is the Bluetooth path a phone uses; padd reads the gamepad; mediad streams the camera over WebRTC; tofd serves the depth sensor. They talk over one JSON-RPC contract on Unix sockets, and every client — the app, the console, the gamepad, your script — sends exactly the same calls.

The interesting decisions are written down: docs/design/ is why things are the way they are, and docs/project/ is what has gone wrong and what would close it.

A note on ducks

No duck was harmed in the making of this robot. Several were consulted.

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