Microduck is a 25 cm open-source biped robot from Pollen Robotics that you train yourself with reinforcement learning.

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Category: Humanoid Robots
Maturityi: Available
Deploymenti: Physical hardware
Purchase access: Public purchase / signup
Official source: Official website
Verifiedi: Not yet verified

Reality check

The useful boundary is what works repeatedly in a real environment—not what looks impressive in a demo.

Works well when

Research, teleoperation and embodied-AI data collection
Structured factory or reception pilots
Tasks where a human-shaped workspace matters

Verify before buying

Continuous runtime, fall recovery and battery workflow
SDK, low-level control access and spare-part lead time
Who owns safety and exception handling on site

Not a magic solution

A general replacement for a human across unpredictable tasks
A maintenance-free appliance
A guaranteed return based on a demo alone

About

Microduck is a 25 cm, 800 g open-source biped robot made by Pollen Robotics, part of Hugging Face. It ships with seven trained moves, including walking, sit and stand, kick, grab, roller skating and getting back up, and its behaviours are policies trained in simulation and deployed on the real robot. The SDK, simulation and full reinforcement learning training stack are open source under Apache-2.0, so you can read, fork and retrain policies on your own machine or on Hugging Face Jobs. It is positioned for makers and AI builders who want to teach a robot new tricks and share policies with the community.