Thomas Wolf Shows Microduck Tracking Laser Pointer
Thomas Wolf integrates image detector on open-source Pollen Robotics biped.
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Thomas Wolf posted about an experiment integrating an image detector on the Microduck robot to detect and follow a laser pointer. The robot comes from Pollen Robotics and features a 25 cm bipedal frame with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, and a grasping beak. Wolf noted that the open-source design with many sensors opens possibilities for such projects. The company has open-sourced the reinforcement learning stack for training behaviors in simulation before running them on the physical robot. Community replies expressed interest in the robot's accessibility and potential uses.
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Thomas Wolf@Thom_WolfSharing some fun experiments with Microduck Basically, once you have an open-source robot with so many sensors, the sky's the limit Here we vibe-coded an image detector integration to detect and follow a laser pointer. More at https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
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TW Thomas Wolf@Thom_Wolfcurrently selling one Microduck every 5 seconds https://twitter.com/thom_wolf/status/2092923071829049592
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TW Thomas Wolf@Thom_Wolfwe've just passed $1,000,000 in sales for Microduck https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2092923071829049592
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PR Pollen Robotics@pollenroboticsTrain in sim. Run it for real. Teach it new tricks. 🦆 This is the sim2real loop that powers Microduck. RL stack open source here : https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck_rl Buy it here : https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/?x=2 Git :…
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PM Packy McCormick@packyMExcited to announce my partnership with Nvidia! (pre-ordered the duck.) https://twitter.com/thom_wolf/status/2092959363992326236
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JL Jasper Lu@lu__jasperI've always thought american robotics products took themselves too seriously. Glad to see huggingface take a page out of China's playbook here. No one actually needs something like this but it's so cute. This thing will make a billion dollars.…
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