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Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
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Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
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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 4 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics open pre-orders for the $399 Microduck.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Bloomberg (Aug 27, 2026, 10:00 UTC); the most recent came from TechCrunch (Aug 27, 2026, 14:56 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 2 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “hugging face”.
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