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Pre-orders open August 27, 2026€299 before taxes and shippingOpen sourcePre-orders open August 27, 2026€299 before taxes and shippingOpen source

Fast facts

The facts

Motors

25 cm

Tall

800 g

To pick up

Camera

Plus LiDAR and two IMUs

Trained moves

50 Hz

Onboard policy loop

What it isA 25 cm tall biped robot, playful and educational, made by Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux-based robotics team at Hugging Face. Their second consumer robot, after Reachy Mini.

What it doesWalks with a waddle, sits, crouches, roller-skates, picks objects up with its beak and gets back on its feet from many common fall positions.

Why it mattersIt makes building AI on real hardware approachable: complex behaviours out of the box, then an open-source software stack for control, simulation, RL training and sim-to-real deployment.

Price€299 before taxes and shipping, introductory

Pre-ordersOpen from August 27, 2026

Shipping timeShips in 1–2 months

MarketsNorth America and Europe at launch

ColourwaysCream, Graphite, Lavender and Sky

Key specifications

The spec sheet

Not final yet

Camera resolution and field of view, LiDAR range, radio versions and SDK languages are still being finalised — and so is any age recommendation. Please treat them as provisional.

Open source = software. The mechanical and electronic design files are not open-source hardware.

Motors15 degrees of freedom, across articulated legs, head and neck

Dimensions25 cm tall, 14 cm wide

WeightUnder 800 g

ComputeRockchip RK3566 with AI accelerator

Memory1 GB RAM, 32 GB storage

VisionFront camera, with a dedicated camera-use indicator inspired by classic REC lights

Motion sensing2 IMUs, one in the body and one in the head

Range sensingCompact LiDAR, an 8x8 time-of-flight matrix

Physical interactionArticulated grasping beak

AudioMicrophones and speaker, with a per-robot generated voice

NFC2 antennas, one in the head and one in the beak

ConnectivityWi-Fi and Bluetooth

BatteryRemovable NP-F550 camera battery, 2600 mAh, around one hour of runtime depending on use

In the boxGame controller, playable before writing any code, plus autonomous behaviours at launch

SoftwareOpen-source SDK with virtual training environments, RL training scripts and tools, and a tested sim-to-real workflow

One robot, four shells

Colourways

Four printed colourways — same robot underneath.

Cream · #f7e6cb

Cream shells, orange trim and beak

Graphite · #6c6a68

Graphite shells, yellow trim and beak

Lavender · #bfa9cf

Lavender shells, yellow trim and beak

Sky · #a9dbe8

Sky-blue shells, orange trim and beak

Photography and clips

The photos

The launch shoot: the real robot in real places, as it appears across this site.

Click any tile to download — stills come down as the original full-quality JPG, clips as MP4.

JPG

MP4 · Clip

Logos and artwork

Take the files

The stickers are free to use in any story about Microduck.

Download the kit · ZIP

Boilerplate

About the makers

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About Microduck

Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. It is playable out of the box, and its open-source software stack lets you train new behaviours in simulation and run them on the robot. Pre-orders open at €299, with shipping in 1–2 months.

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About Pollen Robotics

Pollen Robotics builds open-source robots from Bordeaux, France. Founded in 2016 by former Inria researchers, the team joined Hugging Face in April 2025 and is its robotics team. Microduck is their second consumer robot, after Reachy Mini.

Press contact

Talk to a human

Interviews, review units, extra assets.

contact@pollen-robotics.com