{"id":25749,"date":"2026-08-28T05:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/hugging-faces-microduck-feels-like-a-harbinger-of-the-cute-ai-robot-wave\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T03:34:49","slug":"hugging-faces-microduck-feels-like-a-harbinger-of-the-cute-ai-robot-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/hugging-faces-microduck-feels-like-a-harbinger-of-the-cute-ai-robot-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face\u2019s Microduck Feels Like a Harbinger of the Cute AI Robot Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn\u2019t been paying a ton of attention to the robot beat lately, but an adorable waddling duck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/the-robots-are-stumbling-on-their-way-to-the-revolution\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4830070\">robot<\/a> caught my eye this morning and changed all that. The <a href=\"https:\/\/pollen-robotics.com\/microduck\/blog\/introducing-microduck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microduck<\/a>, a collab between hot AI tool hub Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, can be yours for $399. I can\u2019t stop thinking about it now.<\/p>\n<p>It took me right back to my coverage of adorable toy robots in the 2010s. Sphero\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/sphero-bolt-preview\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/sphero-bolt-preview\/\">programmable rolling balls<\/a> and Star Wars bots, or the Wall-E-like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/anki-cozmo-preview\/\">Anki Cozmo<\/a>. The Microduck is Pollen\u2019s second Hugging Face robot collaboration, the first being a sedentary robot called Reachy Mini.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile Microduck looks like Disney\u2019s waddling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/nvidias-role-in-the-next-generation-of-humanoid-robots\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/nvidias-role-in-the-next-generation-of-humanoid-robots\/\">Nvidia-powered BDX droids<\/a> crossed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/gaming\/untitled-goose-game-teases-free-co-op-update-during-nintendo-indie-world\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3068588\">Untitled Goose Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/hugging-face-microduck-harbinger-cute-ai-robot-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn\u2019t been paying a ton of attention to the robot beat lately, but an adorable waddling duck robot caught my eye this morning and changed all that. The Microduck, a collab between hot AI tool hub Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, can be yours for $399. I can\u2019t stop thinking about it now. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":25750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1399],"tags":[36,4472],"class_list":["post-25749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-techplus","tag-mixtv","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}