How Much Does the Pollen Robotics Microduck Cost?
The manufacturer publishes an introductory pre-order price before taxes and shipping on its own page; that price applies to direct sales in launch countries. Robotlar.org prices sourcing per project: robot quantity, colour mix, charger, dev and accessory packs, import and delivery terms are settled together in a corporate quotation. Since a battery lasts around one hour depending on use, we recommend pricing charger packs alongside the robots for class and lab sets.
Is It for Sale in Turkey?
At launch the manufacturer sells to the US, Canada, the European Union, the UK, Norway, Switzerland, Japan and South Korea, with more countries to follow. Pre-orders opened on 27 August 2026 and first deliveries are targeted before Christmas 2026. We assess Microduck requirements of universities, schools and R&D teams in Turkey through enterprise sourcing; the sourcing route, delivery schedule and documentation are planned per project. For full technical details, the launch film and the move loops, see the Pollen Robotics Microduck product page.
Technical Data
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Height, width, weight | 25 cm, 14 cm, under 800 g |
| Motors | 15 degrees of freedom: legs, neck and head |
| Compute | Rockchip RK3566 + AI accelerator; 1 GB RAM, 32 GB storage |
| Perception | Front camera with REC light, compact LiDAR (8x8 ToF), 2 IMUs (body and head) |
| Interaction | Grasping beak, microphones and speaker, 2 NFC antennas (head and beak) |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi and Bluetooth |
| Battery | Removable NP-F550, 2600 mAh, around 1 hour |
| Software | 7 trained moves, 50 Hz onboard policy loop; open-source stack (Apache-2.0) |
Camera resolution and field of view, LiDAR range, radio versions, SDK languages and any age recommendation are not final yet.
Packs: Robot, Charger, Dev, Accessory
- Robot: robot, battery, USB-C cable, game controller; one of four colourways (Cream, Graphite, Lavender, Sky).
- Charger pack: dual charger, 2 batteries.
- Dev pack: 3 spare motors, 5 motor cables, 2 batteries, charger, 10 NFC tags, Hugging Face credit, screwdriver, screw pack.
- Accessory pack: laser pointer, NFC polaroid (1.54-inch colour e-ink display), 2 rollers, ball, 10 NFC tags.
Who It Is For: Universities, Schools, R&D
Microduck was designed for teams that want to teach reinforcement learning and simulation-to-real transfer on real hardware. Policies are trained with mjlab (MuJoCo based) and PPO, exported to ONNX and deployed to the robot; local training needs a CUDA GPU, and Hugging Face Jobs is used without one. The small body makes falling cheap and self-recovery keeps the experiment pace. The open-source scope is the software; the mechanical and electronic design files are not open.
Alternatives
If you are looking for a teaching platform closer to human scale, consider the Booster K1 (95 cm, 22 DOF), and for bipedal locomotion research the LimX TRON 1. The Unitree R1 (123 cm) and Unitree G1 (132 cm), which we offer as Unitree's partner in Turkey, are used to run RL-trained motions on a full-body humanoid.