When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s ...

Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 open-source robot duck that walks, skates and lifts about 100 grams. Preorders open, ...

Open-source humanoid robotics programme lets students train AI-driven behaviours in simulation, test them on physical robots, ...

Ian reveals why one company isn't keeping its robot design under wraps and plans to make its blueprints available to everyone ...

This cute little robot duck isn't actually a toy. It's actually a platform for budding roboticists to train on and develop ...

Microduck is hardly an unusual product for Hugging Face given its acquisition of Pollen Robotics last year to build affordable, open-source AI hardware.

What makes Microduck genuinely useful for developers is its open source software stack, built around what's called a "sim-to-real" workflow. Training a robot through pure trial and error directly on ...

In May 2026, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Hugging Face launched an agentic AI toolkit for its Reachy Mini desktop platform. In July, ...

The Reachy Mini is an open source robot developed collaboratively by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities in robotics and programming. Powered by a ...

AMD targets robotics with heterogeneous compute, unified memory, deterministic latency and open ecosystems to challenge ...