Building open source robots made by open minded humans to explore real-world applications. @Huggingface family Join our community: https://xitter.cf/t.co/KFG0LopcZt
Bordeaux, France
Joined August 2016
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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.
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Jensen spent 10 min of his keynote asking microducks to sit, then explained Nvidia's roadmap to them 🥹
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My colleagues creating a friendly RL competition for Microduck. Me, 0.2 milliseconds after the launch:
If you want to participate:
huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…
The Microduck Arena is live!
Train your duck with RL, publish it on @huggingface, and race it in the 2 m Sprint, Hill Climb, Roller Sprint and MicroDuck Got a Talent. No robot required.
Join the live 👉 huggingface.co/spaces/pollen…
#Microduck #robotics
youtu.be/9Lnh0Bjr1ds
RT @thibaudfrere: I asked claude to make a music video for our robot.
It took the job way too seriously.
The full movie (2:12): https://t.…
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Say hello to Microduck Beta !
Microduck got its new brain!
Our first fully custom SBC in a Pollen robot! It replaces the Radxa + board sandwich from the prototype.
Built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU but including better memory, better WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, user-facing status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and major improvements in cooling, cable management and boot speed.
First revision arrived, and we got everything running on it within a day. Pretty good day :)
A big milestone on the road to shipping!
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new roommate just moved in. walks like he's had three drinks, says no to everything. still quite cute so I might bring him everywhere with me
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100% of the bricks for my LEGO Microduck have arrived 🦆 (1,113 parts, 3 shops, 3 countries 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇳🇱, all sourced on BrickLink by Opus-5.5)
Now I just need to find the time to build it...
Opus 5.5 designing LEGO 👀
I asked it to design a Microduck I can build with real LEGO pieces. It:
> designed it life-size using 1113 real LEGO parts
> verified: 3,204 connections, 0 collisions, every step buildable, centre of mass inside the feet 🤯
> made a 141-page LEGO-style booklet (237 steps)
> priced every piece in the browser and prepared the orders on BrickLink
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I did some early emotion and animation design for Microduck for the theater videos I've been doing, and I realized I didn't share how to reproduce them. So here it is. Contributions are very welcome!
github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Music: Carefree, Kevin MacLeod
Pollen Robotics retweeted
Microduck got its new brain!
Our first fully custom SBC in a Pollen robot! It replaces the Radxa + board sandwich from the prototype.
Built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU but including better memory, better WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, user-facing status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and major improvements in cooling, cable management and boot speed.
First revision arrived, and we got everything running on it within a day. Pretty good day :)
A big milestone on the road to shipping!
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Our new Nemotron 3 Diarization model + @pollenrobotics Reachi Mini + DGX Spark
Great work Andi @huggingface 🙌
Voice agents still don’t understand who’s speaking to them. That’s a huge gap compared with humans, hidden by all the “phone-call” demos. But that changes today!
NVIDIA is open-sourcing Nemotron 3 Diarization: a model that can reliably track speakers in live conversations, under a commercial-friendly license! In my tests, the quality is really good with one-second speech chunks. So we can use it for voice agents!
I tested it with Reachy Mini and speech-to-speech running on a DGX Spark. It’s super fun to see the robot notice a new voice, ask for a name, and remember it.
The model has day-zero integration with Transformers!
Kudos to the NVIDIA team for shipping useful tools for the whole community!
Train in sim. Run it for real. Teach it new tricks. 🦆
This is the sim2real loop that powers Microduck.
RL stack open source here : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Buy it here : pollen-robotics.com/microduc…
Git : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Join our community : discord.com/invite/pollen-co…
Microduck, in action. 🦆
Walks, sits, roller skates, grabs objects with its beak, gets back up on its own. Out of the box.
Watch it move 👇
Buy it here : pollen-robotics.com/microduc…
Git : github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
Join our community : discord.com/invite/pollen-co…
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.
pollen-robotics.com/microduc…
github.com/pollen-robotics/m…
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The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event that deserves unprecedented transparency. Today we’re sharing everything we can: a full technical timeline, an interactive replay, and how we used an open model to defend ourselves, so defenders everywhere can learn from it and prepare for what’s next.
huggingface.co/blog/agent-in…
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"S.A.N and Burnie" is a series currently in production with @good_bye_monkey featuring a reachy mini by @pollenrobotics
burnie is a redundant news anchor that reluctantly teams up with S.A.N, an AI orangutan who speaks for the forest.
what begins as a talk show turns into an origin story of the singularity with real people, real AI, all filmed on cinema cameras.
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☀️ Reachy Mini Conversation app 0.10.0 and SDK 1.9.0 are out and work great together! Now you can:
- touch the antenna to wake your Reachy Mini
- ask it to track you
- search the web, weather & time, built in
- tell it to sleep
