Hugging Face's open-source robot Microduck passes 20,000 pre-orders
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Pre-orders have opened for Microduck, an open-source robot from Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics. A report dated 24 October 2026 says pre-orders have passed 20,000 units. A video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacting with a group of Microducks during his GTC Berlin keynote had earlier gone viral and is seen as one factor behind the attention. Public information so far is limited to the pre-order figure and the viral video; there are no further details such as delivery dates or pricing.
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The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
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