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Meet Microduck, Hugging Face’s $399 programmable robot duck that can waddle, roller-skate, carry objects, and learn new tricks.
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Meet Microduck, Hugging Face’s $399 programmable robot duck that can waddle, roller-skate, carry objects, and learn new tricks.
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Hugging Face MicroDuck robot is the first educational robot I've wanted in a very long time — even if I do have to program some of the cuteness.
Read this reportClem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
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If you've ever wanted a robotic duck as a companion, now's your chance.
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Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the Microduck show it picking up socks and markers, kicking around a ball, and zipping around on tiny rollerskates. Pollen Robotics says it can also "react to its surroundings" and follow around a laser pointer, or users can control it with a game controller. The Mi...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 6 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Hugging Face launches Microduck, a $399 open-source robot duck.” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Verge (Aug 27, 2026, 13:44 UTC); the most recent came from Mashable (Aug 27, 2026, 17:11 UTC).
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