pollen-robotics/microduck
A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆
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Microduck A tiny biped robot that moves using reinforcement learning policies. Get yours here · Cheat sheet · Training the policies · How it works · Contributing This repo is the duck's brain. About 25 cm and 800 g of robot, run by a handful of daemons on a Rockchip RK3566: a 50 Hz control loop driving fifteen servos from neural policies, the radios and the camera, and the update machinery that gets new software onto a robot without bricking it. Everything you need to run a Microduck is here. If you want one, get yours here. The policies it runs are trained next door, in microduckrl — MuJoCo and PPO, the sim2real recipe, and the export to ONNX that this repo loads. It walks. Pick up a gamepad and drive. It rolls. Put wheels on, ask for roller mode, and it loads the other brain. It picks things up.…
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- It does things
- Where to find things
- You have a duck
- You are building on it
- Under the hood
- A note on ducks
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What this repository does
A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆
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- Owner
- pollen-robotics
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 12,123
- Forks
- 1,523
- Open issues + pull requests
- 57
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-07-29T07:52:16.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-24T09:37:44.000Z
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