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What changed, and what is the evidence.
Oct 21, 2026 · Deployment · posted
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A few months ago I spoke with Eric Pan, founder of @seeedstudio. Their team helped @pollenrobotics , (maker of Microduck) scale their production. He shared a lot of tips on how to think about manufacturing. This conversation is more… |
Humanoid robot market: $5.41B in 2026 → $50.27B by 2035. That’s a projected CAGR of 28.1%. Asia-Pacific held 42.6% of the market in 2025, ahead of North America at 29.3%. Key application areas include manufacturing logistics healthcare and… |
You can build an 8-servo robotic hand for under €200 in parts. The AmazingHand by Pollen Robotics has two options: DIY: source 8 Feetech SCS0009 servos, print the mechanical structure in 3D and assemble the linkages using the free GitHub… |
Pretty cool gripper design. A single gear moves both jaws in opposite directions keeping them parallel as they close around a cube. The best part is seeing the whole mechanism work from gripping the cube to lifting it 30 mm.… |
Three small robots with plenty of personality. - China · XGO-Duck by Luwu Dynamics. - France · Microduck by Pollen Robotics. - USA · Disney’s BDX droid. Their head movements are my favorite detail. Each one has its own character. Shared… |
Interesting to think of this on terms of how flexibly one can create opposition. A good read https://t.co/FV3fzg0fMp |
Every robot starts on a board you bought. The good ones end up on a board you built. https://t.co/uuF38bllUW |
Earlier this September at #IFA2026, our partner @AgoraIO brought Reachy Mini and reBot together to explore what voice interaction with robots can look like. The setup combined Agora’s real-time conversational AI and voice capabilities,… |
A robot you can actually build yourself. 🦆🤖 LuwuDynamics has just launched XGO-Duck, a fully open-source biped robot inspired by Pollen Robotics’ Microduck. It is 3D-printable, built around Arduino UNO Q and uses 15 servos, with learned… |
France has a small but diverse humanoid robotics scene • Wandercraft Calvin-40 Bipedal humanoid built for industrial work • UMA Northstar General-purpose humanoid under development in Paris • Enchanted Tools Mirokaï Mobile humanoid robots… |
This duck learns your choreography. 🦆💃 #Microduck (@huggingface × @pollenrobotics, made by #SeeedStudio) Watch the duck dance, then teach it yours. https://t.co/bETwz3hq1o |
Train Your Own #Microduck — No High-End #GPU Required! 🐥Check out the video tutorial at: https://t.co/1Zol8hyJcN You don’t need a high-end GPU to train a Microduck—even your laptop can do it! In this video, we’ll start from scratch, set… |
😀 #IFA Berlin 2026 is happening now! We’re excited to see our partner #Agora bringing the future of voice-powered robotics to life at the show, with #SeeedStudio 's #reBot Arm and #PollenRobotics #ReachyMini on display at their booth. 📅… |
Compute deals in the billions, a $1.6B perception raise, and new ways to collect robot data without even using the robot. 1️⃣ @Figure_robot partnered with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA Vera Rubin, with $3.5B committed… |
🇫🇷 Four French humanoid worth watching ✸ Mirokaï | Enchanted Tools ✸ Reachy 2 | Pollen Robotics ✸ Northstar | UMA ✸ Calvin-40 | Wandercraft Anything missing? https://t.co/4j5z2aZbIp |
Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck, a tiny bipedal robot priced at $399. It stands 25 cm tall, weighs under 800 grams, and has 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, two IMUs, and an articulated beak. Its open-source… |
Everyone is analyzing NVIDIA’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal through LLMs and cloud compute. The more interesting story? Physical AI. Between LeRobot becoming the open standard for robot learning and Pollen's new $399 Microduck biped, Jensen… |
Nvidia is now a humanoid robot designer. That's the real takeaway from this news. Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93B. Hugging Face is the largest open-model and dataset hub, the "GitHub of AI," with 3M+ models and 18M+… |
People saw the NVIDIA and Hugging Face acquisition news and immediately focused on foundation models, GPUs and the broader AI industry. But one of the biggest consequences could be in Physical AI and humanoid robotics. NVIDIA already… |
$1 million in sales in under SEVEN hours, is the Microduck really that impressive? Here are other affordable open-source robots for context (+ my thoughts): ▸ @LeggedRobot Mini Pupper 2 (~$649): ROS2, SLAM/navigation, quadruped ▸ @ROBOTIS… |
Home robots are coming. The first ones in will be the small ones that are safe around kids and pets. Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 biped. 25cm, under 800g, 15 motors, a camera, a small LiDAR,… |
Post Log in Sign up Post The Humanoid Hub on X: "Home robots are coming. The first ones in will be the small ones that are safe around kids and pets. Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 biped. 25cm,… |
AV-1 MicroduckMade to move · Ready to learn A 25 cm open-source biped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box. Pre-order for $399 Pre-orders open August 27, 2026★$399 before taxes and shipping★Open… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Thomas Wolf on X: "We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Pollen Robotics on X: "We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to. Train it in simulation, run it on the real thing. Meet Microduck 🦆 $399, shipping before Christmas. https://t.co/RflJlIUwOu… |