We have a huge news to share today!

Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck

A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with reinforcement learning.

It’s also playable out of the box with more than half a dozen fun and playful pre-trained policies to have it walk, sit, crouch, roller-skate, pick up objects with its articulated beak, and recover on its own.

And all for less than $400.

See all the details, play with the simulator and order it at: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/

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Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics

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

MicroduckMade to move · Ready to learn

A 25 cmopen-sourcebiped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.

Pre-order for$399

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Meet the twin

sim2realthat works

**Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot.**This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.

Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain.

Teach it newtricks

Every behaviour is a policy you canretrain on your own machine.

01

Train in simulation

Behaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.

02

Deploy on the robot

One step from simulation to the real thing.

03

Refine the simulation

Tune, re-train, re-deploy.

04

Publish the policy

Share your new behavior with the community!

Walk

Velocity-tracking gait.

Sit & stand

Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.

Kick

A one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.

Grab

Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.

Roller skating

Roller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.

Get back up

Flat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.

One robot, four colourways

Choose yourcolour

Every Microduck ships in one offour colourways. Same robot,same brains underneath- pick the shell that best fits you.

Out in the world

In the wild

Thereal robot in real places- on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.

The robot, and what to add to it

Pick yourpack

The robot iseverything you need on day one. The packs add play gear and spare parts.

$399

The robot

Microduck

In the box

Robot, battery, USB-C cable, game controller.

Charger pack

$39

Dual charger, 2x batteries.

Dev pack

$119

3x spare motors, 5x motor cables, 2x batteries, dual charger, 10x NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack.

Accessory pack

$39

Laser pointer, NFC polaroid, 2x rollers, ball, 10x NFC tags.

15Motors25 cmTall800 gTo pick upCameraPlus LiDAR and two IMUs7Trained moves in the box50 HzOnboard policy loop Built in the open

Open source

The SDK, the simulation andthe full RL training stackare on GitHub. What the robot runs is what you canread, fork and retrain.

pollen-robotics/microduck

$ robotctl monitor   # status of the robot$ robotctl configure # configure the robot$ robotctl update    # update the robot

Apache-2.0

The whole software stack, permissively licensed

MuJoCo

The physics sim every policy is trained in

7 policies

Every shipped move, published and retrainable

Join the flock

Builds on show,policies to swap, help when a leg does something strange. The community lives on Discord.

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Pre-orders areopen now

Pre-order for$399

In four colourways.Ships before Christmas 2026. Introductory price,before taxes and shipping.