Microduck

unprovable

Cute, and quite something if the sim-to-real pipeline is as smooth as we all might hope.

tietjens

What is the battery life?

k3liutZu

My wife would love one of these. She's still bitter we didn't get the Sony dog a decade ago.

jCalamari

AI is coming for pet market too.

cs1996

this looks 100x better than Casio's https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/

martianvoid

This actually seems awesome, just going through the video on their site made me burst out with 100 different ways in which I would tinker with it, spend time in learning different gaits, some RL or some tricks to have it jump or do a back flip I can see some parallel between how arduino gave hobbyist a mini computer they can use in any way imaginable, I can see this kind of thing being used to solve unimaginable problems by hobbyist or RL computer scientist or heck any UG student with claude subscription

Mxbonn

This looks really cool! The cuteness of the demo alone makes me want one. Ideally I would also love for it to have a real use case in my home but right now I really cant think of one.

utopiah

for microduck I didn't find but their older reachy_miny was Apache 2.0 and hardware design files as Creative Commons BY-SA-NC

Depurator

neat! since its written in rust, why not use https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2 for ipc?

SomeonesAccount

That is sick

Gannon6790

I'm wanna train some to chase after turtles.

snalty

Ugh, PAL only? I'll wait for the NTSC version.

_joel

It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

amelius

Waiting for robot vacuum cleaners to come with extension ports where you can add fun robot actuators.

telecuda

It doesn't walk like a duck, but Reachy Mini by HF/Pollen Robotics is a great entry-level robot. And you get to assemble it! Direct links: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ https://pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/

Zylokloto

Basic great usecase (not just fun things): IF you can control it remote, you can check your flat if you are gone for a little bit longer.

tamimio

I hope it’s not built on ROS or rely on it in any way! Also kudos for bringing the joy of robotics back, since now most companies are riding the “defense” bandwagon and all robot companies I know suddenly are defense companies and visiting their sites is like the most dystopian thing ever, making it harder to find contract/jobs for people who want to make robotics for good not killing machines.

grommz

Made in China with a 500% markup. No thanks, I will wait for the Chinese version for less than $100.

cekanoni

It looks cool no doubt, but i would be concerned about privacy.

anentropic

How much does it cost to train a new behaviour?