Press kit
Facts, specs, photos, logos - and a human to write to. All plain text, copy and paste away.
Fast facts
The facts
15
Motors
25 cm
Tall
800 g
To pick up
Camera
Plus LiDAR and two IMUs
7
Trained moves in the box
50 Hz
Onboard policy loop
- What it is
- A 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 does
- Walks 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 matters
- It sets out to make building AI on real hardware as approachable as running a model: complex behaviours out of the box, then an open-source stack covering robot control, simulation, RL training and sim-to-real deployment, so new skills can be trained in simulation and transferred to the robot
- Price
- $399 before taxes and shipping, introductory
- Pre-orders
- Open from August 27, 2026
- First deliveries
- Targeted before Christmas 2026
- Markets
- North America and Europe at launch
- Colourways
- 4 at launch: Cream, Graphite, Lavender and Sky
Key specifications
The specsheet
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 open-source statement covers the software stack. The mechanical and electronic design files are not, so please do not describe the robot as open-source hardware.
- Motors
- 15 degrees of freedom, across articulated legs, head and neck
- Dimensions
- 25 cm tall, 14 cm wide
- Weight
- Under 800 g
- Compute
- Rockchip RK3566 with AI accelerator
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM, 32 GB storage
- Vision
- Front camera, with a dedicated camera-use indicator inspired by classic REC lights
- Motion sensing
- 2 IMUs, one in the body and one in the head
- Range sensing
- Compact LiDAR, an 8x8 time-of-flight matrix
- Physical interaction
- Articulated grasping beak
- Audio
- Microphones and speaker, with a per-robot generated voice
- NFC
- 2 antennas, one in the head and one in the beak
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Battery
- Removable NP-F550 camera battery, 2600 mAh, around one hour of runtime depending on use
- In the box
- Game controller, playable before writing any code, plus autonomous behaviours at launch
- Software
- Open-source SDK with virtual training environments, RL training scripts and tools, and a tested sim-to-real workflow, released before the first robots ship
One robot, four shells
Colourways
Four printed colourways - Cream, Graphite, Lavender and Sky. Same robot underneath. Swatches are the calibrated shell colours from the press photos.
Cream
#f7e6cb
Cream shells, orange trim and beak
Graphite
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Graphite shells, yellow trim and beak
Lavender
#bfa9cf
Lavender shells, yellow trim and beak
Sky
#a9dbe8
Sky-blue shells, orange trim and beak
Logos and artwork
Take thefiles
The wordmark carries its own outline, so it sits on a light or a dark background as it is - please leave its colours and proportions alone. The stickers are free to use in any story about Microduck.
ZIP · 12 MB · the launch photos, the die-cut stickers as transparent PNGs, the wordmark and the fact sheet.
The fact sheet
Every number on this page as one plain-text file: facts, launch dates, pricing, colourways, boilerplate and the press contact.
Die-cut stickers
All 36 sheet stickers - QUACK, BANG, BOOM, the bolts, stars and flames - individually cut, as transparent PNGs, print-ready.
Launch photos
The full launch shoot plus the team photo, as original full-quality JPGs - the wordmark rides along in BRAND/.
Every sticker, one by one
The sheet's 36 die-cut stickers as transparent WebP - the zip carries the same artwork as PNG.
Boilerplate
About themakers
Two paragraphs, ready to paste at the foot of a story - and the team behind the robot.
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 $399, with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026.
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 toa human
Interviews, review units, extra assets: write to [email protected] and we will get back to you.