pollen-robotics/microduck

A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆

Hardware, IoT & roboticsRust

2.2 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

About the project

Firmware and system software for Microduck, a tiny biped duck robot on a Rockchip RK3566 that walks, rolls and gets up using neural policies. The repo contains daemons for motor control, updates, Bluetooth, gamepad and camera.

Useful for

Run the duck simulation in MuJoCo without a physical robot
Update robot firmware with signature verification and rollback
Control the robot from a gamepad or laptop over Bluetooth

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

44 stars today.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 12% of the previous week and a half.
The repository is 46 days old and already has 8,224 stars.
Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #44.
About 17 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 8,224
Stars in a day: 44
Forks: 997
Issues and pull requests: 277
Watchers: 46
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: daemon-dev-main · September 13, 2026
Created: July 29, 2026
Last push: September 13, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #44

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