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The Microduck adventure continues, and the shipping dates are close enough to feel real now. We are proud to tell you that 10,950 Microducks will come off the line between December 10 and January 10!
Weekly batches, earliest orders first. Every date is in here.
Reachy Mini has wheels now!
Our little open-source AI robot can finally explore beyond the desktop.
And that's not all:
📱 New mobile app: no computer needed
👑 NFC hats that unlock new personalities and apps
Physical AI just got a lot more fun.
Watch it👇
Pollen Robotics retweeted
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
New on MicroDuck Arena: Tug of War 🦆🪢🦆
Two robot ducks, one rope, a pit in the middle. Drag your rival in and you win.
Train yours in simulation, publish it, and it's in the first cup, live Friday, Nov 6 at 9 AM PT.
huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…
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Sorry for the wait, the episode is here!
Live action with real robots instead of animation (episode 4): "Anger"
Enjoy!
As always, the software of Microduck and Reachy Mini is open source:
github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
github.com/pollen-robotics/r…
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I was the opening act for a family of ducks.
Thank you, Berlin. What a GTC.
Europe is building its AI ecosystem and economy, from AI factories to agents to robots.
DSX POD: Vera Rubin modular factories built, cabled and tested in the factory, then delivered ready to produce intelligence.
Agents: models, harnesses, sandboxes, knowledge and tools. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit brings the pieces together so companies control what their agents know, access and do. NVIDIA OpenShell enhances safety.
Physical AI: new customers across AI-RAN, robotaxis and robotics.
Personal AI: after four years building with Microsoft, RTX Spark brings personal agents to the Windows PC.
Thank you to President @EmmanuelMacron, Prime Minister @andyburnham and Chancellor @bundeskanzler for hosting me. Great to celebrate Sferical One with Sweden’s technology leaders. And thank you to President @TokayevKZ for the warm welcome.
And to our partners and NVIDIA teams: thank you for making it happen.
The keynote is here: youtu.be/rF1EsryCAwc
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Jensen spent 10 min of his keynote asking microducks to sit, then explained Nvidia's roadmap to them 🥹
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My colleagues creating a friendly RL competition for Microduck. Me, 0.2 milliseconds after the launch:
If you want to participate:
huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…
The Microduck Arena is live!
Train your duck with RL, publish it on @huggingface, and race it in the 2 m Sprint, Hill Climb, Roller Sprint and MicroDuck Got a Talent. No robot required.
Join the live 👉 huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…
#Microduck #robotics
youtu.be/9Lnh0Bjr1ds
RT @thibaudfrere: I asked claude to make a music video for our robot.
It took the job way too seriously.
The full movie (2:12): https://t.…
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Say hello to Microduck Beta !
Microduck got its new brain!
Our first fully custom SBC in a Pollen robot! It replaces the Radxa + board sandwich from the prototype.
Built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU but including better memory, better WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, user-facing status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and major improvements in cooling, cable management and boot speed.
First revision arrived, and we got everything running on it within a day. Pretty good day :)
A big milestone on the road to shipping!
Pollen Robotics retweeted
new roommate just moved in. walks like he's had three drinks, says no to everything. still quite cute so I might bring him everywhere with me
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100% of the bricks for my LEGO Microduck have arrived 🦆 (1,113 parts, 3 shops, 3 countries 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇳🇱, all sourced on BrickLink by Opus-5.5)
Now I just need to find the time to build it...
Opus 5.5 designing LEGO 👀
I asked it to design a Microduck I can build with real LEGO pieces. It:
> designed it life-size using 1113 real LEGO parts
> verified: 3,204 connections, 0 collisions, every step buildable, centre of mass inside the feet 🤯
> made a 141-page LEGO-style booklet (237 steps)
> priced every piece in the browser and prepared the orders on BrickLink
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I did some early emotion and animation design for Microduck for the theater videos I've been doing, and I realized I didn't share how to reproduce them. So here it is. Contributions are very welcome!
github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Music: Carefree, Kevin MacLeod
Pollen Robotics retweeted
Microduck got its new brain!
Our first fully custom SBC in a Pollen robot! It replaces the Radxa + board sandwich from the prototype.
Built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU but including better memory, better WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, user-facing status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and major improvements in cooling, cable management and boot speed.
First revision arrived, and we got everything running on it within a day. Pretty good day :)
A big milestone on the road to shipping!
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Our new Nemotron 3 Diarization model + @pollenrobotics Reachi Mini + DGX Spark
Great work Andi @huggingface 🙌
Voice agents still don’t understand who’s speaking to them. That’s a huge gap compared with humans, hidden by all the “phone-call” demos. But that changes today!
NVIDIA is open-sourcing Nemotron 3 Diarization: a model that can reliably track speakers in live conversations, under a commercial-friendly license! In my tests, the quality is really good with one-second speech chunks. So we can use it for voice agents!
I tested it with Reachy Mini and speech-to-speech running on a DGX Spark. It’s super fun to see the robot notice a new voice, ask for a name, and remember it.
The model has day-zero integration with Transformers!
Kudos to the NVIDIA team for shipping useful tools for the whole community!
Train in sim. Run it for real. Teach it new tricks. 🦆
This is the sim2real loop that powers Microduck.
RL stack open source here : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Buy it here : pollen-robotics.com/microduc…
Git : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Join our community : discord.com/invite/pollen-co…
Microduck, in action. 🦆
Walks, sits, roller skates, grabs objects with its beak, gets back up on its own. Out of the box.
Watch it move 👇
Buy it here : pollen-robotics.com/microduc…
Git : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Join our community : discord.com/invite/pollen-co…