Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $399 open-source robot

Microduck is a 25 cm open-source biped with 15 actuators, camera, LiDAR, and two IMUs, trainable via reinforcement learning in simulation. It ships before Christmas for $399, with SDK and RL stack on GitHub.
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