Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
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For $399, Hugging Face is shipping an open-source robot with camera, lidar, IMUs, object pickup, recovery behaviors, and a GitHub-available SDK/simulation/RL training stack. This makes embodied-agent and sim-to-real RL experimentation cheap enough for normal dev teams, but anyone shipping apps on it should treat camera/mic access like a production data-exfiltration surface, not assume “open source” equals private.
Hugging Face released a $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck, designed for reinforcement learning, enabling developers to train behaviors in simulation and deploy directly on the hardware. This lowers the barrier to entry for physical AI experimentation, allowing engineers to rapidly iterate on robotics projects without expensive proprietary systems, though it introduces privacy risks if third-party apps misuse cameras or microphones.