microduck
microduck-emotions
Microduck Emotions
A collection of emotions for the Microduck robot. Each one is a motion and a sound designed together, beat by
beat, with the beak opening on the sound, rendered in the physics simulation and validated on the real robot. Every
emotion is three files: the motion (emotions/<name>.json, keyframes at 30 fps: head and body offsets played on
top of whichever trained policy is active, plus the policy hand-overs, such as the sit that devastated and play dead
start)… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/pollen-robotics/microduck-emotions.microduck-electric-slide-motion
Microduck Electric Slide Motion
Current status — 2026-09-13: NOT a completed dance policy
The new 5 cm, exaggerated-step requirements have not passed. The 400-iteration phrase refinement stays upright in nominal GPU BAM evaluation, but fails step travel; one of ten randomized no-push rollouts falls, and the CPU BAM diagnostic also falls. No new training was run on September 13. Earlier statements below that all counts passed used weaker QC and do not establish… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Histochemichael/microduck-electric-slide-motion.microduck-detection-dataset
Microduck Detection Dataset
Single-class object detection dataset (class 0 = microduck, the 25 cm biped robot duck announced by Pollen Robotics / Hugging Face on 2026-08-27) in YOLO format, built to train a tiny (<5M param) detector.
Composition
Synthetic scene renders (train ~1,040 / val ~60): the robot from the open-source MuJoCo model in pollen-robotics/microduck_rl (full visual-mesh model, scene_allcollisions.xml), rendered headlessly with randomized pose… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/pngwn/microduck-detection-dataset.microduck-skill-tree
Microduck skill tree, the training log
Simulation only. Nothing here has run on a real robot yet; the Microduck this is for is still on order. Every policy, curve and clip in this repo comes from mjlab / MuJoCo Warp on one RTX 5090, trained with the tasks in pollen-robotics/microduck_rl at commit 53b8971.
This is the build log. One folder per level of the skill tree, publishable or not, partial or not. The installable policies live in their own model repos (one per policy, in… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/witcheer/microduck-skill-tree.microduck-stairs-challenge
Microduck Stairs Challenge
Simulation only, never on hardware. Every number in this card was produced in MuJoCo,
in the plant sim/scene.mjb (sha256 3f8c9ab9b409ba74c73c30179d5f7c12b025f631693f9eec78d80dca242547be,
compiled from sim/scene_physics.xml, shipped here as harness/scene_physics.xml). No move
in this package has ever been run on a physical Microduck, and nothing here should be run on
one without a separate safety review: in the 20 cells where the trunk got over the 95… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/craigm26/microduck-stairs-challenge.microduck-hermes-runs
Microduck driven by Hermes Agent: simulation runs
One sentence typed to Hermes Agent, and a Pollen Robotics Microduck does it. Hermes Agent picks and runs every command itself. This dataset logs every such run: the sentence, the agent's full transcript, the simulator's ground truth, the robot daemon's own monitor, and a replay video.
Simulation only. Not yet tested on a real Microduck. The simulator runs Pollen's real robot daemon (robotd), so the commands, the safety layer and… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/witcheer/microduck-hermes-runs.