Microduck
25 cm open-source biped you train in sim and run on the real robot. $399, ships before Christmas.
Pollen Robotics, Hugging Face's robotics team, built a 15-motor duck you can skate, pick things up with its beak, and teach new tricks. Train in simulation, deploy on the hardware. GitHub has the SDK and the RL stack.
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