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MicroDuck / 牛来 · ETHANYEANG / SHENZHEN

MicroDuck / 牛来

From crouching to hopping: designing rewards that teach a small biped to jump in simulation.

MY ROLE

Set the goal and experiment design: defined reward and motion targets, followed simulation training and turned the results into a reproducible record.

119 seconds of training on Thor

The vertical cut with its own burned-in subtitles, running from getting the card recognised and training spin to the remark that nobody seemed to have done jump yet.

Parallel environments · 8 seconds

A row of MicroDucks stepping on one checkerboard at once, an 8-second loop. No audio.

THE PROJECT

This project explores PPO reward design and motion stability in a simulation training environment for MicroDuck, an open source robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face. Policies are exported to ONNX. The video shows simulation results, not a claim of real robot validation. Added on 2026-10-31: the Thor training run and a batch of MicroDucks stepping in parallel environments.

Experiments describe their actual environment and scope. Check the linked source for implementation details, license, current support and reproduction steps.

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