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Public story · 2026-08-29 · source-backed
A $399 open-source 25cm biped with 15 actuators, a camera, lidar and two motion sensors, walking, sitting, kicking, rollerskating and grasping small objects. Orders passed $1M six hours after launch and $2.6M within 24, first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026 in North America, Europe and the UK. Behaviours train in physics simulation and deploy straight to hardware, and the SDK, simulator and training stack are all Apache-2.0. Cheapest end-to-end sim-to-real loop a solo builder can currently buy, and the order velocity says the demand was already there. (Axios)
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Pollen Robotics released Microduck / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics / Shared entity: Apache / Earlier coverage
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Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics
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Claude Code uses Axios / Shared entity: Apache / Earlier coverage
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