GoKawiilNvidia-owned Hugging Face's Microduck robot tops 20,000 preorders
A video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang demonstrating small robotic Microducks at the GTC Berlin keynote went viral, and preorders surpassed 20,000 units within a day, according to Hugging Face co-founder Clem Delangue. The Microducks are open-source robots made by Pollen Robotics, a company Hugging Face acquired in 2025; Nvidia itself acquired Hugging Face in September. The devices were trained using Nvidia's technology stack and ship with basic tricks like walking and sitting, with owners able to teach and share new behaviors.