Open-source Microduck robot orders top 20,000

Advance orders for Hugging Face's $399 Microduck robot, whose design is free for anyone to copy, have passed 20,000, TechCrunch reported, after Nvidia chief Jensen Huang played with the robots during the main talk at a Berlin tech conference. Pollen Robotics, which Hugging Face bought in 2025, makes the device and expects to deliver it in time for Christmas.