{"id":2084,"date":"2026-08-30T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:17:13","slug":"microduck-hugging-face-open-source-robot-399-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/en\/2026\/08\/30\/microduck-hugging-face-open-source-robot-399-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Microduck: Hugging Face Launches a $399 Open-Source Walking Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"netgu-2386623990\" class=\"netgu-before-content netgu-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6258556257245998\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6258556257245998\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3494115342\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Together with robotics company Pollen Robotics, Hugging Face is selling a cute, duck-shaped robot: the &#8220;Microduck&#8221; is open source, costs $399 and targets developers who want to experiment with &#8220;physical AI.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small but packed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bipedal robot is about 25 centimeters tall and weighs under 800 grams. Inside it are 15 motors, a camera, a small depth sensor and two motion sensors (IMUs). With those, Microduck can walk, crouch, grasp objects and recover from falls &ndash; and learn entirely new behaviors through simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open to your own experiments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via an open-source SDK, you can program new behaviors, train reinforcement-learning policies in simulation and then transfer them to the real robot through &#8220;sim-to-real.&#8221; The target audience is researchers, developers and students looking for an affordable entry into robotics and machine learning &ndash; beyond expensive industrial humanoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Price and availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microduck is available to pre-order from $399 (plus taxes and shipping) in Cream, Graphite, Lavender and Sky. First deliveries are targeted for before Christmas 2026 in North America, Europe and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/27\/hugging-face-is-selling-a-cute-399-open-source-duck-robot-microduck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2245407\/huggingface-and-pollen-robotics-opn-pre-orders-for-the-microduck-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"netgu-2944490425\" class=\"netgu-after-content netgu-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6258556257245998\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6258556257245998\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"4559785002\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics are selling the &#8220;Microduck&#8221;: an open-source, duck-shaped walking robot for $399 \u2013 for experimenting with physical AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netguide.io\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}