Nvidia's Microduck robots pass 20,000 preorders after GTC Berlin demo
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Hugging Face's Clem Delangue said preorders for the $399 Microducks topped 20,000 units the day after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin keynote, with delivery expected before Christmas. The open-source robots, built by Pollen Robotics, learned their tricks in simulation on Nvidia's RTX Spark and Omniverse stack.
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