Hugging Face Opens Pre-Orders for Microduck Robot

The New Stack reported that Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders for Microduck. The $399 open source biped trains in a physics simulator with reinforcement learning. The tweet described the robot as one that teaches reinforcement learning and picks up socks. The linked source summary confirmed the pre-order launch and the robot's design as a compact biped for that training method.