Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics
Microduck Made to move · Ready to learn
A 25 cm**open-source**biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box.
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Waking up the duck…
Meet the twin
sim2real that works
**Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot.**This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on.
Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain.
Teach it new tricks
Every behaviour is a policy you can**retrain on your own machine**.
01
Train in simulation
Behaviours are learned in physics sim, on your machine or on Hugging Face Jobs.
02
Deploy on the robot
One step from simulation to the real thing.
03
Refine the simulation
Tune, re-train, re-deploy.
04
Publish the policy
Share your new behavior with the community!
Walk
Velocity-tracking gait.
Sit & stand
Sits down, holds the pose, stands back up on its own.
Kick
A one-shot boot, then straight back to walking.
Grab
Dips the beak to the ground, scoops, and pops back upright.
Roller skating
Roller skating locomotion when the skates are equipped.
Get back up
Flat on its back to standing, all by itself, ready for the next command.
One robot, four colourways
Choose your colour
Every Microduck ships in one of**four colourways**. Same robot,**same brains underneath**- pick the shell that best fits you.
Waking up the duck…
Out in the world
In the wild
The**real robot in real places**- on desks, on the pitch, out at golden hour.
!Image 2: Close-up of a Microduck standing on a desk in warm light
!Image 3: A woman laughing while playing with a Microduck at a table
!Image 4: A Microduck on a desk looking into the camera while someone codes behind it
!Image 5: Two Microducks playing with a ball on a turf pitch
!Image 6: Overhead view of a desk with Microducks, a game controller and a sticker sheet
!Image 7: A Microduck carried under an arm
!Image 8: A Microduck standing in front of a laptop screen in teal light
!Image 9: Microduck outdoors at golden hour, next to a skater's shoe
!Image 10: A hand sticking a lips sticker onto a Microduck's beak, sticker sheets spread on the table
!Image 11: A Microduck standing on a pink rug in a child's playroom
!Image 12: A Microduck on a desk in warm morning light, next to a monitor and a game controller
!Image 13: A Microduck standing on a bedroom rug while its owner codes on the bed behind it
!Image 14: A Microduck walking across a green games table surrounded by people
The robot, and what to add to it
Pick your pack
The robot is**everything you need on day one**. The packs add play gear and spare parts.
!Image 15: The Microduck robot standing on a desk, drawn as a comic panel
$399
The robot
Microduck
In the box
Robot, battery, USB-C cable, game controller.
!Image 16: A dual-slot battery charger, two spare batteries and a USB-C cable, drawn as a comic panel
$39
Dual charger, 2x batteries.
$119
3x spare motors, 5x motor cables, 2x batteries, dual charger, 10x NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack.
$39
Laser pointer, NFC polaroid, 2x rollers, ball, 10x NFC tags.
15 Motors
25 cm Tall
800 g To pick up
Camera Plus LiDAR and two IMUs
7 Trained moves in the box
50 Hz Onboard policy loop
Built in the open
Open source
The SDK, the simulation and**the full RL training stack**are on GitHub. What the robot runs is what you can**read, fork and retrain**.
ssh microduck
$ robotctl monitor # status of the robot$ robotctl configure # configure the robot$ robotctl update # update the robot
Apache-2.0
The whole software stack, permissively licensed
MuJoCo
The physics sim every policy is trained in
7 policies
Every shipped move, published and retrainable
Join the flock
Builds on show,**policies to swap**, help when a leg does something strange. The community lives on Discord.
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Pre-orders are open now
In four colourways. Ships before Christmas 2026.
Introductory price, before taxes and shipping.