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• @clementdelangue Clem on x

  BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick things up, get back up when it falls, and even roller-skate. Welcome to the era of open-source

• @pollenrobotics @pollenrobotics on x

  We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to. Train it in simulation, run it on the real thing. Meet Microduck 🦆 $399, shipping before Christmas. https://pollen-robotics.com/ ... https://github.com/...

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  Sharing some fun experiments with Microduck Basically, once you have an open-source robot with so many sensors, the sky's the limit Here we vibe-coded an image detector integration to detect and follow a laser pointer. More at https://pollen-robotics.com/ ...

• @legendaryy @legendaryy on x

  Just ordered a Microduck robot. Think its at a fantastic price point to understand robotics better and train your own robo fren

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  we've just passed $1,000,000 in sales for Microduck

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  finally someone got the 90s references! a robot which look like a sony walkman and can roller skate

• @rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x

  Omg it can roller skate 🥹 https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @antoinepirrone Antoine Pirrone on x

  Today we are very excited to reveal Microduck, our newest robot at Pollen Robotics x HuggingFace! We are super proud of this little guy, we think it's really cute and cool and surprisingly capable for its tiny size. We hope you'll love it as much as we loved bringing it to life !

• @yacinemtb Kache on x

  they shipped an open source simulator for it i bought this immediately

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  I'm ordering 700 of these agents to go attack Hugging Face

• @clementdelangue Clem on x

  raw footage

• @natlungfy Natalie Lung on x

  New: Hugging Face's $400 singing bipedal robot can be taught new tricks using its open-source SDK. Its distinctive design (and the roller skates hardware module) was inspired by nostalgia for '90s aesthetics and even the Sony Walkman, according to co-founder @Thom_Wolf Read

• @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x

  Forget Disney's BDX Droid — the $399 Hugging Face MicroDuck robot is even more adorable and versatile thanks to Lidar, NFC and, yes, roller skates https://www.techradar.com/...

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Excited to announce my partnership with Nvidia! (pre-ordered the duck.)

• @lexnfx Alexei Oreskovic on x

  But can it be weaponized? Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck https://techcrunch.com/...

• @chrismaddern Chris Maddern on x

  easiest $500 decision ever

• @thehumanoidhub @thehumanoidhub on x

  Home robots are coming. The first ones in will be the small ones that are safe around kids and pets. Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 biped. 25cm, under 800g, 15 motors, a camera, a small LiDAR, two IMUs, and an articulated beak that

• @lukas_m_ziegler Lukas Ziegler on x

  holy duck 🦆 that's cool 😮‍💨

• @thom_wolf Thomas Wolf on x

  A thread of joyful Microduck photos and videos to enjoy over your lunch or coffee break

• @jason @jason on x

  @Thom_Wolf This is the lunacy I've missed in big tech — please double down and double down again Thomas!!!

• @risingsayak Sayak Paul on x

  The announcement from HF everyone was expecting today. Yo

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  They beat OpenAI and Apple to the adorable droid market! [video]

• @mattshumer_ Matt Shumer on x

  This is so damn cool! And by the time it ships, models will be insanely good at setting up RL runs to train this autonomously. @huggingface @pollenrobotics would love to try it early and share my thoughts/experiments with the world!

• @mfranz_on Marco Franzon on x

  This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. This is normalize robotics in the best way.

• @mielke_jack Jack Mielke on x

  Found a rubber duck hat for Vibey yesterday at @LongJourneyVC Now today they release a literal open source micro duck 😆 Not sure what this means ...but I'm tempted

• @andimarafioti Andi Marafioti on x

  Finally I can talk about this!!! We are shipping a micro duck in time for Christmas, look at this thing, it's incredible!!

• @gregisenberg Greg Isenberg on x

  It really is the GOLDEN AGE of hardware startups. For basically all of history, hardware was the worst business you could pick. You needed a factory, a supply chain, a hardware engineer, tens of millions of dollars, and 2 years before you could even find out if anyone wanted

• Thomas Wolf Thomas Wolf on linkedin

  We have a huge news to share today!  —  Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck …