The Desk Duck That Learned to Roller-Skate

A tiny robot duck learned to walk, get back up, and roller-skate. Not from a homework sheet. From practice.

Microduck, from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics (Aug 27). Same family as Reachy Mini. Four crayon colors: Cream, Graphite, Lavender, Sky.

How it learns: reinforcement learning. Try. Score. Try again. Like a bike. Thousands of pretend ducks practice in a video-game Earth, then the winning moves go onto the real desk.

Kid Mission: Duck Coach Challenge. Write a robot recipe. Have someone follow it exactly. When they get stuck, change the recipe and try again.

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/