When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s ...

Open-source humanoid robotics programme lets students train AI-driven behaviours in simulation, test them on physical robots, ...

Ian reveals why one company isn't keeping its robot design under wraps and plans to make its blueprints available to everyone ...

Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box ...

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of ...

Hugging Face has unveiled the Microduck, a small open-source robot designed to make physical ...

Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 25-centimeter-tall biped robot designed to let developers experiment with physical AI ...

In May 2026, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Hugging Face launched an agentic AI toolkit for its Reachy Mini desktop platform. In July, ...

Microduck is hardly an unusual product for Hugging Face given its acquisition of Pollen Robotics last year to build ...

The Reachy Mini is an open source robot developed collaboratively by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities in robotics and programming. Powered by a ...

Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 open-source robot duck that walks, skates and lifts about 100 grams. Preorders open, shipping by Christmas.