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MicroduckAV‑1Made by Pollen Robotics, the robotics team at Hugging Face

A tiny robot duck you can actually teach.

Microduck is a 25 cm open‑source biped. It walks, sits, kicks, grabs, skates and picks itself back up. Every move is a small neural network you can retrain on your own machine, and it is playable out of the box with the bundled controller.

Pre‑order $399

Four colourways·First deliveries before Christmas 2026·Taxes and shipping at checkout

25 cmtall

15motors

< 800 gweight

50 Hzpolicy loop

Four printed colourways

Pick a shell.

Same robot, same brains underneath. The page follows your pick, so does the duck.

Shells are printed, so the surface has a fine layer texture up close. The beak, feet and trim come in the second colour.

Tech specs

Small body, full sensor suite.

Size: 25 cm tall, 14 cm wide, under 800 g
Motors: 15 Dynamixel XL‑330 servos 5 per leg, 4 in the neck and head, 1 in the beak
Vision: Front camera with a REC indicator light 8×8 time‑of‑flight LiDAR beside it
Balance: Two IMUs, one in the body and one in the head
Compute: Rockchip RK3566 with NPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB storage
Audio: Microphones and a speaker each robot generates its own voice
NFC: Two antennas, one in the head and one in the beak
Radio: Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth
Battery: Removable NP‑F550 camera battery, 2600 mAh around one hour of play, depending on use
Software: Open‑source SDK, MuJoCo simulation, RL training scripts and a tested sim‑to‑real workflow Apache‑2.0

Pull it apart 0%

Slide to open the shells and see the battery, motors and joints.

Camera resolution and field of view, LiDAR range, radio versions and SDK languages are still being finalised by Pollen Robotics. Treat them as provisional.

Pre‑order

Everything for day one.

The robot ships ready to play. The packs add spares, batteries and play gear. First deliveries are targeted before Christmas 2026 in North America and Europe.

The robot

Microduck

$399

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Graphite · tap to walk · drag to turn
Try the colours or buttons to see its face react

Colourway

Microduck in Graphite, yellow trim
NP‑F550 battery and USB‑C cable
Game controller, playable before you write any code
Seven trained moves and the autonomous behaviours at launch

Introductory price, before taxes and shipping.

Power

Charger pack

$39

Dual charger
2 extra NP‑F550 batteries

Play

Accessory pack

$39

2 rollers for skating
Ball and laser pointer
NFC polaroid and 10 NFC tags

Build

Dev pack

$119

3 spare motors and 5 motor cables
2 batteries and a dual charger
10 NFC tags, screwdriver and screw pack
Hugging Face credit for training in the cloud

For people who plan to open it up.

Built in the open

What it runs is what you can read, fork and retrain.

The SDK, the MuJoCo simulation and the full reinforcement‑learning stack are public under Apache‑2.0. Train a policy on your own GPU, copy it over, and the duck runs it.

GitHub Browser simulator Community Discord

Apache‑2.0software licence

MuJoCophysics sim

7shipped policies

# on your laptop
$ ssh microduck
# on the duck
$ robotctl monitor
imu ok · 15/15 motors · battery 7.4 V · policy: walk
$ sudo robotctl policy load walk ~/my_walking.onnx
loaded my_walking.onnx (61 obs, 14 act)
$ sudo robotctl policy reset walk

Questions

Before you order.

Is this the official Microduck store?

No. micro‑duck.store is an independent reseller. Microduck is designed and built by Pollen Robotics, the robotics team at Hugging Face. We stock units and ship them to you, and we handle your order from start to finish.

When will it ship?

First deliveries are targeted before Christmas 2026 in North America and Europe.

We dispatch in the order pre‑orders arrive and email a tracking number when yours leaves. If the manufacturer's date moves, we tell you straight away and you can cancel for a full refund.

What do I need to use it?

Nothing extra to play: charge the battery, pair the controller, go. Wi‑Fi lets it update itself and talk to the SDK.

To retrain a policy you need a Linux machine with an NVIDIA GPU. Training runs in simulation and the result is a small ONNX file you copy to the robot.

Is the hardware open source?

The software is: SDK, simulation and training stack under Apache‑2.0. The mechanical and electronic design files are not published.

Returns and warranty

Unopened units can be returned within 30 days of delivery. Hardware faults in normal use are covered for 12 months, handled through us. Spare motors and cables are in the dev pack if you like fixing things yourself.

Is it a toy for children?

Pollen Robotics has not set an age recommendation yet. It is a desktop robot with small parts and exposed joints. Think of it as a gadget to build with, not a toy for small children.