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Microduck RL

Reinforcement learning environments for a small bipedal robot

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What it is

A set of MuJoCo Warp training environments, built on mjlab with PPO, for teaching the 25 cm Microduck biped to walk, stand up, sit, kick a ball, roll, and skate on passive wheels. It models the Dynamixel XL330 servos down to their voltage control law, adds domain randomization and gear backlash, and exports policies to ONNX for the real robot. Robotics researchers and hobbyists working on sim-to-real locomotion can train on a CUDA GPU or Hugging Face Jobs and test policies with keyboard control in simulation.

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2,472 GitHub stars.
2,472

Forks
575
Commits
1,255
Contributors
9
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 12, 2026
On GitHub since
December 2025
Platforms
Linux, CLI
Self-hostable
No
Tags
  • model-training
  • robotics
  • reinforcement-learning
  • machine-learning

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Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsMicroduckAug 27, 2026 · 784 points · 252 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“machine learning little robot buddy...”Aug 31, 2026 · 6 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I'm very excited about the MicroDuck from Pollen Robotics. Think I have to pre-order one. A bonus is that a lot of its software seems to be written in Rust 🦆🦀”Aug 29, 2026 · 2 likes · 3 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Me: We should kill those robo dogs with hammers Also me: I would die for Microduck”Sep 1, 2026 · 1 like · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsMicroduckAug 30, 2026 · 1 point · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“For everyone who needs a small, trainable robot, may I introduce, Microduck:”Sep 4, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“7. Curated repository of Model Context Protocol MCP servers LINK 8. Reinforcement learning environments for Microduck robotics platform LINK”Aug 31, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Built for an 800 g biped robot, microduckrl trains walking policies with MuJoCo Warp and PPO for direct sim2real transfer. Worth a look, or does it not…”Oct 9, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“microduck_rl RL training environments for Microduck (mjlab)”Sep 9, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“A superb way to get started with robotics, learning. This cute little robot has a great digital twin that can be trained on a laptop. This opens up robotics…”Aug 28, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“I can't help but think the Microduck from Hugging Face is so cute :-) Perhaps fun for the kids to play with... for about 10 minutes.”Aug 28, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Pollen Robotics/Hugging Face debuts Microduck, an $399 waddling robot GitHub: From Pollen Robotics on 𝕏 […]”Aug 28, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics”Aug 28, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)