Microduck robot preorders top 20,000 after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo
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Hugging Face's Clem Delangue said preorders passed 20,000 units the day after Huang played with the ducks on stage; Thomas Wolf counted ~3,000 sold on launch day and 4,000+ in the next 24 hours. The 25 cm open-source biped has 15 motors and ships in time for Christmas.
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