pollen-robotics/microduck
A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 23 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +765 stars on Oct 27, coincided with release daemon-dev-static-grasp-default.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements the control software for a tiny bipedal robot that moves using reinforcement learning policies on a Rockchip RK3566.
- Enables real-time control of multiple servos, sensors, and update mechanisms with a modular daemon architecture in Rust for robust robot operation.
- Use for developing and testing embedded robotics control systems with reinforcement learning-driven locomotion.
- Use for integrating and managing hardware peripherals like cameras, depth sensors, and gamepads in a compact robot platform.
- Use for deploying and maintaining safe, reversible software updates on autonomous robots in field environments.
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
A tiny biped robot that moves using reinforcement learning policies.
This repo is the duck's brain. About 25 cm and 800 g of robot, run by a handful of daemons on a Rockchip RK3566: a 50 Hz control loop driving fifteen servos from neural policies, the radios and the camera, and the update machinery that gets new software onto a robot without bricking it.
Everything you need to run a Microduck is here. If you want one, get yours here.
The policies it runs are trained next door, in microduck_rl — MuJoCo and PPO, the sim2real recipe, and the export to ONNX that this repo loads.
It also sits, kicks a ball, rolls forward on command, and quacks in a voice that is its own.
Daily snapshots
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+4,345 stars over 34 days across 16 snapshot days; best day +765 on Oct 27.
Forks
1.7K+526
Open issues
96+74
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| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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