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Microduck

Made to move · Ready to learn

A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.

The Microduck squad
Waking up the duck…

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Microduck squadWaking up the duck…

Meet the twin

sim2realthat works

Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot. This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.

Launch the simulator

Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain.

Teach it new tricks

Every behaviour is a policy you can retrain on your own machine.

01

Train in simulation

Behaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.

02

Deploy on the robot

One step from simulation to the real thing.

03

Refine the simulation

Tune, re-train, re-deploy.

04

Publish the policy

Share your new behavior with the community!

Walk

Velocity-tracking gait.

Sit & stand

Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.

Kick

A one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.

Grab

Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.

Roller skating

Roller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.

Get back up

Flat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.

One robot, four colourways

Choose yourcolour

Every Microduck ships in one of four colourways. Same robot, same brains underneath — pick the shell that best fits you.

CreamGraphiteLavenderSky
One robot, four colourwaysWaking up the duck…

Out in the world

In the wild

The real robot in real places — on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.

Close-up of a Microduck standing on a desk in warm lightView
A woman laughing while playing with a Microduck at a tableView
A Microduck on a desk looking into the camera while someone codes behind itView
Two Microducks playing with a ball on a turf pitchView
Overhead view of a desk with Microducks, a game controller and a sticker sheetView
A Microduck carried under an armView
A Microduck standing in front of a laptop screen in teal lightView
Microduck outdoors at golden hour, next to a skater shoeView
A hand sticking a lips sticker onto a Microduck beakView
A Microduck standing on a pink rug in a playroomView
A Microduck on a desk in warm morning lightView
A Microduck standing on a bedroom rug while its owner codes on the bedView
A Microduck walking across a green games table surrounded by peopleView

The robot, and what to add to it

Pick your pack

The robot is everything you need on day one. The packs add play gear and spare parts.

The Microduck robot standing on a desk, drawn as a comic panel
$399
The robot
Microduck
In the box

Robot, battery, USB-C cable, game controller.

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Charger pack
Charger pack
$39

Dual charger, 2x batteries.

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Dev pack
Dev pack
$119

3x spare motors, 5x motor cables, 2x batteries, dual charger, 10x NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack.

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Accessory pack
Accessory pack
$39

Laser pointer, NFC polaroid, 2x rollers, ball, 10x NFC tags.

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15
Motors
25 cm
Tall
800 g
To pick up
Camera
Plus LiDAR and two IMUs
7
Trained moves in the box
50 Hz
Onboard policy loop

Built in the open

Open source

The SDK, the simulation and the full RL training stack are on GitHub. What the robot runs is what you can read, fork and retrain.

Apache-2.0MuJoCo7 policies

The whole software stack, permissively licensed. The physics sim every policy is trained in. Every shipped move, published and retrainable.

pollen-robotics/microduck
ssh microduck
$ robotctl monitor # status of the robot
$ robotctl configure # configure the robot
$ robotctl update # update the robot
robot is ready

Join the flock

Builds on show, policies to swap, help when a leg does something strange. The community lives on Discord.

Join the Discord

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Pre-orders are open now

In four colourways. Introductory price, before taxes and shipping.

Pre-order for $399
Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks