Pollen Microduck

Microduck is a 25 cm biped from Pollen Robotics with an open-source software stack. Pollen describes it as a robot you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Its product page lists a game controller in the box, and the store page mentions built-in behaviors. The robot weighs 780 g and has 15 degrees of freedom, an articulated grasping beak, a wide-angle camera, an 8×8 ToF LiDAR, two IMUs, microphones, a speaker and two NFC antennas.

Pollen says Microduck can walk, sit, crouch, get back up from many common falls and roller-skate. The store lists a Rockchip RK3566 with an AI accelerator, 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. Its removable NP-F550 battery provides approximately one hour of runtime. The software is open source: the blog describes a stack covering robot control, simulation, reinforcement learning and sim-to-real deployment, and the main GitHub repository is licensed under Apache-2.0. Pollen says the mechanical and electronic design files are not open-source hardware.

Pre-orders opened on 27 August 2026 at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. Optional charger, dev and accessory packs are sold separately. Pollen's store targets first deliveries before Christmas 2026 in North America, Europe, the UK and several other launch markets.