Microduck
A tiny open-source biped you can train yourself
Details
- External ID
- 1234088
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Microduck
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Aug. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 291
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6235955056179775
- Tags
- Open Source, Robots, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Microduck is a 25cm, $399 open-source bipedal robot built by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics. It’s designed for sim-to-real reinforcement learning. It ships with 7 pre-trained behaviors and an Apache 2.0 software stack you can clone, modify, and retrain.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie mini-games and interactive toys
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- trainable open-source robot
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a physical bipedal robot involving custom hardware, mechatronics, motor dynamics, and sim-to-real reinforcement learning controllers.
What it would actually take: Building Microduck requires custom mechanical design (3D CAD, custom leg linkages, high-torque brushless/servo actuators, IMUs) and embedded electronics (motor driver PCBs, microcontrollers like STM32 or ESP32). On the software side, it demands advanced robotics engineering: physics simulation in Isaac Sim or MuJoCo, training bipedal balance and gait policies via RL (PPO/SAC), and domain randomization techniques to successfully transfer policies to physical hardware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 21 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 22 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
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- microduck-replica-cad · github · 2026-09-09 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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