Pollen Robotics — Microduck

Microduck is a 25 cm open-source biped robot by Pollen Robotics, designed to make reinforcement learning for robotics accessible outside expensive research labs. The site positions it as playable out of the box with seven trained behaviors such as walking, sitting, standing, kicking, grabbing, roller skating, and getting back up. It ships with a game controller and is built around a MuJoCo simulation and an Apache-2.0 open-source RL stack that users can fork and retrain. The $399 price point, Hugging Face integration, and community policy-sharing loop are the core strategic bets. Revenue, growth, and team size are not publicly disclosed.