Imagine WWE SmackDown, but with cute, AI-trained robots. Eight teams spend days training reinforcement-learning policies for Pollen’s open-source MicroDuck, then we throw them in the simulator to fight for the Golden Beak Belt. The whole competition will be livestreamed. The catch: you’re not building a robot, you’re training its brain. Want in? Register a team, train your policy, or host a showdown in your city. When the real MicroDucks ship, we go IRL.
HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics caught the world by surprise by unveiling a new robot called Microduck.
Within days, they had pre-sold more than 10,000 units of the biped.
It could be just another "Kickstarter" project, where you put money in and hope it arrives on time. Instead, the team shipped a simulator and a full training environment so you can already start teaching your robot some moves before it ships.
We've seen people teaching their virtual duck how to break dance or dance like a swan. But what caught my attention was JP's simulation, where a model was trained to let robots play sumo against each other.
This discovery led me to launch DuckFightClub, where robot aficionados meet to compare their training skills in the simulator and eventually in real life.
Do you have what it takes to train a model to play duck sumo, beat them all, and win the Golden Beak Belt?
The first event will be livestreamed on Youtube and some local IRL are already scheduled.
First rule of DuckFightClub: don't quack about it.
About DuckFightClub on Product Hunt
“Train your MicroDuck and win the Golden Beak Belt”
DuckFightClub launched on Product Hunt on September 9th, 2026 and earned 139 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Imagine WWE SmackDown, but with cute, AI-trained robots. Eight teams spend days training reinforcement-learning policies for Pollen’s open-source MicroDuck, then we throw them in the simulator to fight for the Golden Beak Belt. The whole competition will be livestreamed. The catch: you’re not building a robot, you’re training its brain. Want in? Register a team, train your policy, or host a showdown in your city. When the real MicroDucks ship, we go IRL.
On the analytics side, DuckFightClub competes within Robots, Sports and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 500.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DuckFightClub performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DuckFightClub?
DuckFightClub was hunted by Nicolas Grenié. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of DuckFightClub including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Nicolas Grenié
HuggingFace and Pollen Robotics caught the world by surprise by unveiling a new robot called Microduck.
Within days, they had pre-sold more than 10,000 units of the biped.
It could be just another "Kickstarter" project, where you put money in and hope it arrives on time.
Instead, the team shipped a simulator and a full training environment so you can already start teaching your robot some moves before it ships.
We've seen people teaching their virtual duck how to break dance or dance like a swan. But what caught my attention was JP's simulation, where a model was trained to let robots play sumo against each other.
This discovery led me to launch DuckFightClub, where robot aficionados meet to compare their training skills in the simulator and eventually in real life.
Do you have what it takes to train a model to play duck sumo, beat them all, and win the Golden Beak Belt?
The first event will be livestreamed on Youtube and some local IRL are already scheduled.
First rule of DuckFightClub: don't quack about it.