# Pollen Robotics opens pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm reinforcement learning robot

- Source: Pollen Robotics · YouTube
- Published: 2026-08-27T15:00:37.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/zah7eaqz5o6ua1tctjnq8f0d6
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szW7N_7B3tU

## Summary

Pollen Robotics has opened pre-orders for Microduck at $399 (excluding taxes and shipping), with first deliveries targeted before Christmas 2026. The 25 cm-tall robot is built for reinforcement learning, with 15 degrees of freedom, a front camera, an 8x8 LiDAR, two IMUs and a full sensor suite, and supports designing behaviors in simulation and transferring them to the real robot.

## Why it matters

It packs the full loop from simulation training to real-world deployment into a small, pre-orderable complete robot, letting readers gauge the barrier to building their own reinforcement learning workflow.