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Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have unveiled Microduck, a $399 open-source 25-centimeter robot with 15 motors, LiDAR, and a camera, capable of walking, recovering from falls, kicking, picking up objects, and rollerblading, with new skills trainable in simulation via reinforcement learning and transferable to the physical robot.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into LeRobot, the open-source robotics library, giving developers a standardized end-to-end pipeline for robot foundation model training, data collection, and deployment, with Cosmos 3 integration planned next.
Rémi Cadene, who developed Tesla’s Optimus AI from scratch and pioneered LeRobot at Hugging Face, has unveiled an early prototype of Northstar, UMA’s humanoid robot, targeting European manufacturing plants, logistics warehouses, and homes, with 50 potential customer conversations already underway.
