microduck

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What it does

An editorial selection.

Software "brain" for a 25 cm, 800 g biped duck robot that walks using RL policies trained in MuJoCo.

Why it is listed

A hackable, approachable sim-to-real legged-robotics project from Pollen Robotics (Reachy).

GitHub describes it as: A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 12,754
Forks: 1,573
Open issues: 20
Merged PRs: 329
Commits, last 30 days: 281
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Rust
Licence: Apache-2.0
Created: 29 Jul 2026
Last push: 27 Oct 2026
Latest release: daemon-v0.17.9 · 26 Oct 2026
Category: Hardware, Robotics & Games
Topics: none listed
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

Explore and get started

Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by pollen-robotics.

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Development context

These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.

Total commits on default branch: 1,406
Open pull requests: 66
Closed issues, lifetime: 33
Median time to close an issue: 11.8 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 0.0 days

Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.

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