Every figure, name and claim the finished picture puts on screen, chased to a primary source. Ordered by where it appears.
Price: $399, introductory, before taxes and shipping. Pre-orders opened 27 August 2026. Source: Pollen Robotics store listing, https://store.pollen-robotics.com/products/microduck Source: Pollen Robotics press kit, https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
First deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026. The store lists availability at launch in the US, Canada, the EU, the UK, Norway, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea. The UK is listed separately from the EU, which is why the narration names it separately. Source: https://store.pollen-robotics.com/products/microduck
Made by Pollen Robotics with Hugging Face. Pollen Robotics is Hugging Face’s robotics company. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
25 cm tall, 14 cm wide, under 800 g. The press kit gives the mass as 780 g. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
15 motors. Fifteen degrees of freedom across the legs, head and neck. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
Sensors: a front facing camera, a compact 8x8 time of flight matrix, and two IMUs, one in the body and one in the head. The narration calls the time of flight matrix lidar, which is what the product page calls it. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
An articulated grasping beak that picks up objects. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
Compute: a Rockchip RK3566 with an AI accelerator, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. A removable NP-F550 battery, about an hour of runtime. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
A gamepad is included. Source: https://store.pollen-robotics.com/products/microduck
Behaviours in the box: walking, sitting, crouching, roller skating, object grasping and fall recovery. The press kit states seven trained moves; the narration lists eight verbs because it counts standing separately. The picture performs the behaviours and does not print a count. Source: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
The robot runtime, the SDK, the simulation and the reinforcement learning training stack are public on GitHub, under Apache 2.0. Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck_rl
The runtime: a Rockchip RK3566 running a 50 Hz control loop, driving fifteen servos from
neural policies exported to ONNX. Written in Rust as a set of daemons that talk over
JSON RPC on Unix sockets: robotd owns the control loop and the motor bus, updaterd
handles signed releases and rollback, configd Wi-Fi and identity, btd Bluetooth,
padd gamepad input, mediad camera streaming over WebRTC, tofd the depth sensor.
Those are the service names the picture draws.
Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck
Training: MuJoCo Warp through mjlab, PPO, domain randomization, BAM actuator physics, backlash simulation, and ONNX export. Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck_rl
A usable walking gait takes roughly one to two hours on a CUDA GPU at 4096 parallel environments. The quickstart states “uses your GPU; ~1-2 h for a usable gait at 4096 envs”. Source: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck_rl
Raspberry Pi and Arduino are named as developer hardware that mattered for being cheap and approachable rather than for being the fastest or for replacing industrial equipment. That is an argument rather than a measurement, and the picture states no figure for either.
Tesla Optimus is named once, as the thing Microduck is not. The picture draws the two to scale and marks only Microduck’s 25 cm, because Optimus’s dimensions were not chased to a primary source for this video and an unsourced figure is not put on screen.