Hugging Face launches Microduck, a $399 open-source robot duck

In a world of creepy humanoid robots, be a duck robot. The ongoing AI revolution has finally given us something everyone can get behind: a tiny robot duck on roller skates. Yes, really. On Aug. 27, AI platform Hugging Face unveiled Microduck , a 9.8-inch-tall bipedal robot that waddles, sits, kicks a ball, picks up objects with …