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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by num42 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:58PM (#49473848)
I found a few open-source small bipedal robots on the internet. There are actually many open-source robots available:

[1]. https://robotics.umich.edu/news/2024/a-smaller-simpler-biped...

https://github.com/daviddoo02/Legolas-an-open-source-biped

[2].https://github.com/MuShibo/Micro-Wheeled_leg-Robot

[3].https://github.com/Yuexuan9/Tinker

Quadruped:

[1].https://github.com/stanfordroboticsclub/StanfordQuadruped

[2].https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io/

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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by clarus on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:44AM (#49477169)
Thanks for the links! There is also Upkie: https://github.com/upkie/upkie
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by rokbenko on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:58AM (#49507297)
I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by _giorgio_ on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:41AM (#49477693)
So which one should people buy?
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by rokbenko on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:58AM (#49507296)
I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by pj_mukh on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:26PM (#49480862)
I would love the simplest one of these with just wheels and an arm. Could do so much with it.
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by rokbenko on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:59AM (#49507301)
I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
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Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck by rokbenko on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:58AM (#49507295)
I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
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