Microduck robots pass 20,000 preorders after GTC Berlin demo
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Hugging Face's Clem Delangue said preorders of Pollen Robotics' Microducks topped 20,000 units after Jensen Huang had four of them sit, nap and somersault on voice command at GTC Berlin. The $399 open-source robots were trained in simulation on Nvidia's RTX Spark and Omniverse stack, with delivery expected before Christmas.
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