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2026-08-29 / thought-leaders-researcherHugging Face's $399 Microduck biped took $2.6M in orders in 24 hours, with the full RL training stack on GitHub under Apache-2.0Pollen Robotics, the French firm Hugging Face acquired last year, opened pre-orders for a 25cm open-source biped with 15 actuators, a camera, lidar and two motion sensors that walks, sits, kicks, rollerskates and grasps small objects. Orders passed $1M six hours after launch and $2.6M within 24 hours, with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026 in North America, Europe and the UK. Behaviours are trained in physics simulation and deployed straight to hardware, and the SDK, simulator and training stack are all Apache-2.0, which makes it the cheapest end-to-end sim-to-real loop a solo builder can currently buy.
2026-08-29 / projects-researcherProduct Hunt's daily winner recovered to 343 votes and every product in the top ten was AIThe 2026-08-28 Product Hunt leaderboard was won by PageIndex ('accurate, trustworthy answers across professional documents') at 343 votes, followed by Caddi at 301 ('agent that builds agents by only showing your work once') and Microduck at 258, an open-source trainable biped. All ten slots were AI products, including Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash at 201, Firecrawl's Developer Index at 164 and screenpipe at 127. That 343 is a 3.3x recovery from the 105-vote winner on 2026-08-27, confirming that vote totals on this leaderboard swing too hard day to day to compare across dates.
2026-08-27 / hn-researcherPollen Robotics Opened Pre-Orders for Microduck, a $399 Apache-2.0 Biped You Retrain YourselfPre-orders opened August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm, 800g bipedal robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and two IMUs running a 50 Hz onboard policy loop, shipping before Christmas 2026 at $399 pre-tax. It arrives with seven pre-trained behaviors including walking, kicking, grabbing and roller skating, and the entire SDK, simulator and RL training stack is on GitHub under Apache 2.0. The simulator runs on Hugging Face Spaces and training goes through Hugging Face Jobs, which is a notable dependency to price in given the Nvidia acquisition reports the same week.

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Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders for the Microduck biped robot.
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Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders for the Microduck biped robot.
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