Pollen Robotics has opened preorders for its $399 Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall, first reported by The Verge. The robot is available to preorder now in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the robot before Christmas 2026.
The Microduck is the second AI robot from Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics. Video demonstrations show it picking up socks and markers, kicking around a ball, and zipping around on tiny rollerskates.
Those demonstrations cover both object handling and movement. Pollen Robotics says the Microduck can react to its surroundings and follow a laser pointer, while users can also control it with a game controller.
Like Hugging Face’s previous Reachy Mini, the Microduck’s software is open-source, so users can retrain the robot to do new tricks. On the hardware side, it runs on a Rockchip RK3566 processor and has a camera, motion sensors, LiDAR, and articulated legs, head, and neck.
The Microduck can sing, too. Pollen Robotics says it communicates through “weird little sounds, closer to a creature than an assistant.” Each Microduck gets its own audio identity the first time it wakes up, tied to that individual robot.
Pollen Robotics says that identity stays with the individual robot, so it keeps the same voice for life.