Microduck
25 cm open-source biped duck with 15 motors, $399 pre-order
Prices and stock checked 7 Nov 2026
- Type
- BipedPollen Robotics + Hugging Face
- Build difficulty
- 1 of 5Beginner
- License
- Apache-2.0GitHub repo license
- Price
- $399Pre-order or stock on the seller page
Where to buy the Microduck
| Seller | Price | Stock | Checked | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollen Robotics Pre-order, first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026 (US) | $399 | CHECK SITE | checked 7 Nov 2026 | Buy |
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What the Microduck really costs
| Part | Cost | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Microduck robot (robot, battery, USB-C cable, game controller) Before taxes and shipping | $399 | pollen-robotics.com checked 7 Nov 2026 |
| Charger pack (dual charger, 2 batteries) Optional | $39 | pollen-robotics.com checked 7 Nov 2026 |
| Dev pack 3 spare motors, 5 motor cables, 2 batteries, dual charger, 10 NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack | $119 | pollen-robotics.com checked 7 Nov 2026 |
| Accessory pack Laser pointer, NFC polaroid, 2 rollers, ball, 10 NFC tags | $39 | pollen-robotics.com checked 7 Nov 2026 |
$399 is the introductory pre-order price before taxes and shipping; packs are optional extras. No BOM for a DIY build is published by Pollen; community replicas exist on GitHub.
What it is
Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face that walks using reinforcement-learning policies. It ships assembled and playable out of the box; you can retrain behaviours in simulation and deploy them. Pre-orders opened August 27, 2026.
Difficulty 1 of 5. Ships as a finished robot with a game controller; retraining RL is the advanced part source
What it can do
- Walk, sit, kick, get back up after a fall
- Pick things up with its beak
- Roller-skate with the rollers fitted
- Run policies you train in MuJoCo simulation
Demo and build videos
Recent news and releases
- Hugging Face22 public datasets match "microduck"checked 7 Nov 2026
- GitHub releasepollen-robotics/microduck: daemon 0.18.86 Nov 2026
- GitHub releasepollen-robotics/microduck: daemon 0.18.76 Nov 2026
- GitHub releasepollen-robotics/microduck: daemon 0.18.7-dev.1610.ae96f69 (nfcd-poll-less)6 Nov 2026
- GitHub commitpollen-robotics/microduck: Merge pull request #553 from pollen-robotics/release-0.18.96 Nov 2026
- GitHub commitpollen-robotics/microduck: Merge pull request #552 from pollen-robotics/pad-pair-candidates6 Nov 2026
- GitHub commitpollen-robotics/microduck_rl: Merge branch 'share_training' into develop27 Oct 2026
- GitHub commitpollen-robotics/microduck_rl: find_onnx_source: skip checkpoints that fail to download27 Oct 2026
- Hacker NewsHugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck28 Aug 2026
Parts list and links
Sourced facts
11 facts with links
- Size and weight: 25 cm tall, 800 g (site and README); Pollen's YouTube description says 780 g source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Hardware: 15 motors, camera, 8x8 LiDAR, 2 IMUs, mics, speaker, NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Compute: Rockchip RK3566, 50 Hz control loop driving 15 servos from neural policies source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Storage and RAM: 32 GB storage, 1 GB RAM source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Moves in the box: 7 trained moves source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Pre-order date and price: Pre-orders opened August 27, 2026 at $399 before taxes and shipping source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Delivery: Hugging Face aims to dispatch first orders before Christmas in the US source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Colourways: 4 colourways source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Stack: Rust on-robot software; RL policies trained with MuJoCo + PPO and exported to ONNX source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- GitHub stars: 13,526 on pollen-robotics/microduck; 2,829 on microduck_rl source · checked 7 Nov 2026
- Day-one orders claim: $2.6M in orders in first 24 hours reported by one outlet; not independently verified source · checked 7 Nov 2026
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