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.
Quite a week for @Hugging Face. Right after the reported big deal, they’re launching something very on-brand with Pollen Robotics: a $399 open-source biped you can train yourself.
It’s desk-sized — 25cm tall, under 800g — and already walks, picks things up, gets back up after a fall, and even roller-skates.
The whole software stack is open under Apache 2.0.
Reachy is the one you talk to. This one you teach to walk!
About Microduck on Product Hunt
“A tiny open-source biped you can train yourself”
Microduck launched on Product Hunt on August 28th, 2026 and earned 209 upvotes and 6 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. 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.
On the analytics side, Microduck competes within Open Source, Robots and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 556.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Microduck performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Microduck?
Microduck was hunted by Zac Zuo. 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.
Zac Zuo
Hi everyone!
Reachy Mini has a new little buddy 🦆
Quite a week for @Hugging Face. Right after the reported big deal, they’re launching something very on-brand with Pollen Robotics: a $399 open-source biped you can train yourself.
It’s desk-sized — 25cm tall, under 800g — and already walks, picks things up, gets back up after a fall, and even roller-skates.
You can mess with how it moves in the browser first, then put the new behavior on the real robot.
The whole software stack is open under Apache 2.0.
Reachy is the one you talk to. This one you teach to walk!