About Microduck: who makes it and why it is open

Microduck is made by Pollen Robotics, the robotics company behind Reachy, and sold direct at microduck.homes as a pre-order. This page is the official short version: who is behind the duck, why it exists, where you can buy it, and how to tell the real thing from the search results around it.

The short version

• Maker: Pollen Robotics, part of the Hugging Face family - the company behind Reachy.
• The robot: a 25 cm biped duck, $399 before taxes and shipping, four colourways, seven trained moves. All numbers on the specs page.
• Sold: direct, as a pre-order, only here at microduck.homes - see where to buy.
• Open: the SDK, simulator and reinforcement-learning stack publish as Apache-2.0 on GitHub - what the robot runs is what you can read and change.
• Community: owners, trainers and tinkerers meet in the Discord and around the repositories.

Why build a duck?

Because walking on two legs is the interesting problem, and small is the right size for it. A full-size biped is a research lab project; a desk-sized one is something you can live with, train and understand. The duck shape is the promise: approachable on the outside, seriously technical on the inside - reinforcement learning, sim-to-real transfer and an open toolchain under a shell that quacks.

The approach reflects how Pollen Robotics builds everything: robots people can live with - the expressive Reachy Mini is the other side of the same idea - and software that stays open, so the community can retrain, extend and teach the robots things the factory never shipped.

What "open" means for Microduck, concretely

• The robot software and SDK - Apache-2.0.
• The training environments - MuJoCo, PPO, sim-to-real, ONNX export.
• The hosted simulator - the same robot in a browser tab.
• The documentation - here.

Seven trained moves ship installed; every one of them is retrainable - that is the point of the whole stack.

Where the duck is sold

One place: microduck.homes, direct from the maker, as a pre-order with a one-time Stripe payment. The where to buy guide walks the whole thing; the official sources page is the safety check for everything else that appears in search results under a similar name. In short: if it is not sold here, it is not this robot.

Contact

• Orders, shipping, robots: support@microduck.homes - your order number from the payments page helps.
• Code, bugs, policies: the GitHub repositories.
• Everything conversational: the Discord.
• Product updates: the updates page.

Writing about Microduck?

The specs page and the FAQ answer most factual questions with sources; everything else goes through support@microduck.homes.

Common questions

Who makes the Microduck robot? Pollen Robotics, the company behind Reachy, sold direct at microduck.homes.

Is Microduck a Pollen Robotics product or a fan project? Official product, sold direct by the maker - where to buy is the walkthrough.

Can I buy Microduck from my country? The where to buy guide covers supported countries at checkout, and support answers the edge cases.

How do I keep up? The updates page, the Discord, and the repositories.