Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launch $399 Microduck robot
Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot, sold over $2.5 million in 24 hours, with 10,500 units ordered and $4.54M in sales in 4 days. It features 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, and can walk, roller-skate, and be retrained via reinforcement learning.
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6 days · 6 reports · 35 community posts · from Aug 27
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Hugging Face Unveils $400 Singing, Skating Duck-Like Robotbloomberg.com
Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating ducktheverge.com
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microducktechcrunch.com
This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socksthenewstack.io
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