Drenaya

[Jeff Boudier 🤗 @jeffboudier]

To celebrate scaling Microduck production, we scaled... the duck.

Meet MEGADUCK at Open Together, Friday Oct 16 in SF - details below.

How big do you think it is?

[Pollen Robotics @pollenrobotics]

The Microduck adventure continues, and the shipping dates are close enough to feel real now. We are proud to tell you that 10,950 Microducks will come off the line between December 10 and January 10!

Weekly batches, earliest orders first. Every date is in here.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Very cool to see Microduck making an appearance at @OpenAI Dev Days with @romainhuet!

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

GPT 6.1 duck

[Drenaya @Drenaya_]

The first Microducks are being assembled in Bordeaux! 🦆

These very first units will be used for testing and demos.

So cool to see them come to life

[Hannes von Essen @HannesVonEssen]

How to get to the second floor 🦆

[Remi Fabre @RemiFabreRobot]

Live action with real robots instead of animation: Divorced.

I was exploring how to make Reachy Mini more expressive and I got lost in the plot again.
One is a Wireless and the other a Lite. Both have the experimental "Prosody Wobbler". What do you think?

[Antoine Pirrone @antoinepirrone]

Some of the head iterations we made with Augustin Crampette and @matth_lapeyre to get to Microduck's final design. 🦆

It was an intense exploration phase, free to test every idea before narrowing down to what we'd push to industrialization.

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

microducks are so incredibly cheap

[Lewis Tunstall @_lewtun]

For those who were wondering, $12,930,300,000 buys around 32,406,766 microducks

[Matthieu Lapeyre @matth_lapeyre]

Exciting times ahead for open-source robotics too!

[Drenaya @Drenaya_]

@fabdreamai Sooo cute! I would love to try this on the real robot, if you're up for sharing the policy

[fabdream.ai @fabdreamai]

Trying to teach Microduck to skate.

It walks to the board and steps on by itself.

The board is modeled via Blender MCP and 3D printable. Every dimension comes from the robot: it lifts its foot 13mm, so the deck sits at 13.5mm and the wheels are 10mm bearings.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.

Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.

NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗

https://t.co/q8Om2Xc5ye

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Super happy to share our intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition 💛💚

10 years after starting Hugging Face, open-source AI is at an inflection point. Thanks to the community, we’ve shown that it can be a complement, and even an alternative, to closed-source APIs. But for it to happen at larger scale, it needs more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility. That’s why we went to talk to Jensen, who offered to do exactly that with us.

In addition to doubling down on NVIDIA’s massive contributions to open-source AI (I called them the “King of American open-source AI” earlier this year), they’ve committed to strongly supporting Hugging Face and our mission while keeping the platform open, independent and compute agnostic. The founders and the team are all staying to keep pushing this mission forward.

Together, we think we can make open source the default way to build AI, with the goal of empowering 100 million AI builders to own their intelligence rather than rent it.

Excited about the next 10 years! 🤗🤗🤗

[Remi Fabre @RemiFabreRobot]

This is how Microduck learns to walk. Reinforcement Learning, explained by ducks. 🦆

(impeccable) music arrangement by @antoinepirrone

[american tanuki @baketnk_en]

duckpole

[Pollen Robotics @pollenrobotics]

We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to.

Train it in simulation, run it on the real thing. Meet Microduck 🦆

$399, shipping before Christmas.

https://t.co/RflJlIUwOu
https://t.co/kcoCKdAKfu

[Drenaya @Drenaya_]

@Henry_J_Brew So cool! Would love to try this on the real robot, can you share this? Ideally in this format https://t.co/fJUkjXMMww
You can also join the discord to share it with the community, we have a channel dedicated to share policies
https://t.co/vLugnI4xFG