Pollen Robotics gives its $399 Microduck an Isaac Lab gait-training path

Co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre's open-robotics bet now has a 4,096-environment training recipe, ONNX export and steps for deploying a learned gait on the physical biped.

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Primary source: Hugging Face Newsroom

Why it matters

Pollen is turning an affordable biped into a hands-on test of open robotics: developers can train, export and share locomotion policies, while the GPU requirement and real-world transfer still set the practical limits.

A compact biped robot takes a step across a robotics lab floor beneath a Pollen Robotics sign.

Pollen Robotics has published a path for training its Microduck biped in simulation and running the resulting walking policy on the physical robot, extending co-founder Matthieu Lapeyre's long-running open-robotics project from shared hardware into shared behaviors.…

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