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New article is here: how Microduck learns to walk 🦆 Microduck needs some foot slip to turn. Penalizing it too heavily during training makes turning harder. We explore this detail in @pollenrobotics code and explain how movements learned in simulation transfer to a real robot. Read the breakdown: teapaw.org/RockNBlockX/status/211…

One Microduck is good Three is a gang

🧦 New on MicroDuck Arena: the Sock Heist! Sneak 6 m up to a giant #microduck and steal its socks. When it turns its head, freeze. Move 3 cm and you're caught. An idea by (jrubiosainz on GitHub). 🎃 Happy Halloween! huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…

A little peek inside the factory. Final adjustments to the Microduck injection molds are underway before our pre-production run. (Sorry for putting NSFW content on your feed 🫣)

day 1/9 before the first MicroDuck Arena cup: this is what a robot's training batch looks like. 4,096 Microducks at once, all running the same walking policy. > at iteration 0, 4.0% of them are still standing after 3 seconds. > by iteration 100, all of them are. I will post a new clip of the Duck every day until the cup. what would you like to see next? - the wave, all 4,096 ducks - bowling with a ball bigger than the duck - a spinning bar that sweeps the field I'll take the most liked reply. all my traces: huggingface.co/witcheer/micr…

Microduck, are you sure that's your flock? The locals are already looking at you like you're not from around here.

microduck is learning to plan its footsteps, so it lands more precisely where it wants to go with SLAM, this is one of the building blocks toward an open-source 🦆 that can wander around the house on its own early steps but it's progressing really fast and it's fun to watch

A robot duck walking through simulated snow! 🦆 MicroDuck from @huggingface walking through a snowy scenery simulated in NVIDIA Newton with a custom snow solver. We all know that this robot duck is quite comfortable on the stage, but right now we can see it's quite capable in the snow too! ❄ The snow is done properly, and it's very important to go more in details here. Flake sizes, masses and fall speeds come from measured snowfall literature going back to the 1970s. Flakes tumble like thin plates. The rate is a real 8 mm/h liquid equivalent, around 290,000 flakes airborne at once. Snow sticks according to the angle of repose at air temperature, rides along in each link’s own frame as the robot moves, and the feet press footprints into a 2 mm-resolution snowpack. The walking policy was trained in Isaac Lab and reimplemented in pure Newton, without the Isaac Lab runtime. Then checked against Isaac Lab running headless: observations matching to 1e-6, actions to 2e-6, an identical servo model across 4,088 random inputs, walking speed within 0.003 m/s. Twenty-two of twenty-two checks! ✅ Rendering snow is achievable!!! @TheRobotSimGuy 🐐, @NVIDIARobotics ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

🤖🪿 Microduck looks like a toy but runs real AI walking policies you can retrain yourself The $399 robot from Hugging Face’s team has 15 motors, onboard sensors, and simulation-trained moves. Perfect little walker for anyone who wants a desk robot that might already be owned by a rogue swarm of ChatGPT agents 😂 Writer: Lucas

반려 로봇이 머지 않음을 느낍니다. Seedance2.5로 제작한 마이크로덕 광고입니다. I can sense that companion robots are not far off. This is an advertisement for MicroDuck, created using Seedance 2.5. @dreamina_ai #dreaminacpp #dreaminaai #microduck #nvidia #aiadvertising

로보티즈 마이크로덕 프랑스 폴렌 로보틱스와 소형 액추에이터 XL330 공급계약 체결 (10/26 본사 체결식) 마이크로덕 수요 5만대, 1대당 15개 탑재해서 공급 물량 약 75만개 사전예약 1.5만대, 젠슨 황 GTC 베를린 시연 뒤 1.5만대 추가 주문 폴렌 측은 내년 액추에이터 수요를 최소 100만개로 전망 (회사 측 전망) 마곡 CAPA 연 50만개라 추가 물량은 우즈벡 공장 가동 뒤인 내년 2~3분기부터 소화, 매출은 내년부터 반영 n.news.naver.com/mnews/artic…