Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launch $399 Microduck robot

Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped with 15 motors, camera, LiDAR, and two IMUs, is available for pre-order at $399. It walks, sits, roller-skates, and grabs objects, with an open-source RL training stack and simulator. People spent over $2.5 million in 24 hours on pre-orders.