Hugging Face and its Pollen Robotics unit have opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25-centimeter bipedal robot priced at just $399. The robot features 15 motors, a camera, and a LiDAR sensor, with shipments scheduled before Christmas 2026. Crucially, Microduck's SDK, simulation environment, and reinforcement-learning training stack are fully open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing owners to inspect and retrain all seven pre-installed policies. This launch dramatically lowers the barrier for hobbyists and researchers to experiment with physical AI, mirroring the democratization pattern that made open-weight language models mainstream. The combination of affordable hardware, open-source software, and an actual RL training pipeline represents a watershed moment for accessible physical AI development. (Original source: AI Impact Hub, August 29, 2026)
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