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Hugging Face Opens Pre-Orders for $399 Open-Source Biped Robot Microduck

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Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399, 25 cm open-source bipedal robot trained via reinforcement learning in MuJoCo and exported to ONNX. The announcement follows Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-08-29 18:58 · The Next Web
    Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
  2. 2026-08-29 05:25 · MarkTechPost
    Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
  3. 2026-08-27 14:56 · TechCrunch AI
    Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

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