Hugging Face's Microduck robots top 20,000 preorders after GTC Berlin demo
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Clem Delangue said preorders passed 20,000 units after Jensen Huang's keynote demo, with delivery expected before Christmas. The $399 open-source ducks, made by Pollen Robotics (acquired by Hugging Face in 2025), learned their tricks in simulation on Nvidia's RTX Spark and Omniverse stack.
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