For whatever reason, all of Silicon Valley has decided the ultimate achievement in robotics is the humanoid form. Not sure why; get past the age of 30 and tell me your body is well designed. Plus, the way the clankers move gives most folks the uncanny valley creeps. Hugging Face has opted to avoid that issue and try to build itself a Wall-E with its newest bot, the Microduck—the latest addition to the robotic forms that want you to surrender to cuteness.
The specs on the open-source Microduck list the little guy at 25 cm (that’s about 10 inches) tall and weighing less than two pounds, with 15 motors that power its bipedal body. It has a depth…
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