🦾Nvidia's Huang Plays With Microduck Robots, 20,000 Sell
TL;DR
A video of Jensen Huang playing with Microduck robots at GTC Berlin went viral, and preorders passed 20,000 the next day. The open-source robots, built by Pollen Robotics, were trained in simulation on Nvidia's stack and ship by Christmas.
A video of Jensen Huang playing with Microduck robots at GTC Berlin went viral, and preorders passed 20,000 the next day. The open-source robots, built by Pollen Robotics, were trained in simulation on Nvidia's stack and ship by Christmas.
Key Points
Preorders passed 20,000 units a day after the video spread, per Hugging Face's Clem Delangue
Microduck responds to voice commands: sit, play dead, somersault
Made by Pollen Robotics, now part of Nvidia after Nvidia bought Hugging Face in September
Trained in simulation with Nvidia's stack; owners can teach new tricks and share them
Hugging Face's second robot after Reachy Mini
Why It Matters
Sim-to-real training is now cheap enough for a consumer toy. A 20,000-unit preorder base is a distribution channel for open robotics.
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