Tag: embodied ai
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Hugging Face Opens Preorders for Microduck, a $399 Open-Source Biped
Pollen Robotics opened preorders for Microduck on August 27, 2026 — a 25 cm, 800 g open-source biped robot priced at $399. The robot is the second hardware product from the French startup Hugging Face acquired in April 2025, and the first built explicitly as a reinforcement-learning testbed: the SDK, the on-robot software, the MuJoCo […]
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Mistral Releases Robostral Navigate: Single-Camera Robot Navigation
On July 8, 2026, Mistral AI announced Robostral Navigate — the company’s first embodied navigation model and its formal entry into physical AI. The 8-billion-parameter model guides robots through complex environments using nothing but a single RGB camera and natural language instructions — no LiDAR, no depth sensors, and no pre-built maps. It sets a […]