Microduck robots trained in Nvidia simulation pass 20,000 preorders
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Hugging Face's Clem Delangue said preorders for the $399 open-source Microducks topped 20,000 after Jensen Huang demoed them at GTC Berlin, with delivery expected before Christmas. The robots were trained in simulation using Nvidia's RTX Spark and Omniverse stack, then transferred to real hardware.
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