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We shipped a $400 robot with a full sim2real RL pipeline. It went viral, and we expect thousands of people to train behaviors on real hardware!

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We just launched Microduck, a tiny biped whose behaviors are trained in simulation and transferred to the real robot. Figured this community might enjoy it. Everything is open source, and we already have a bunch of people training new, sometimes crazy, policies. Training RL policies for physical ro…

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  1. 2026-08-29 20:13 · r/reinforcementlearning
    We shipped a $400 robot with a full sim2real RL pipeline. It went viral, and we expect thousands of people to train behaviors on real hardware!

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