Microduck

Microduck is a compact biped robot designed for learning and experimentation. It features 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, and a grasping beak, arriving ready to use out of the box. The robot's open-source stack enables users to train new behaviors in simulation using reinforcement learning, then deploy them directly to the hardware. The project indicates it was built with Claude AI coding tools.

Users can teach the robot various skills—walking, sitting, kicking, grabbing objects, and recovering from falls—by retraining policies on their own machines or via Hugging Face Jobs. Each trained behavior can be shared with the community. The sim-to-real workflow lets developers iterate quickly between simulation and physical deployment, making it accessible for robotics experimentation and education.