# pollen-robotics/microduck

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.5 out of 10 — Peaking
- Stars: 13,027 total · +80 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:04–12:13 UTC, ≈ 159 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-07-29 · Last push: 2026-10-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck · Homepage: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pollen-robotics/microduck

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:04–12:13: 12947 → 13027 stars (+80). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +159 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 59% of the previous week and a half.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #42.
- About 21 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,608
- Issues and pull requests: 490
- Watchers: 82
- Average over the last week: 418 per day
- Usual pace: 51 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 7
- Latest release: daemon-dev-configure-tolerates-unknown-keys (2026-10-29)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 28, 24, 22, 27, 25, 16, 20, 44, 42, 30, 33, 22, 33, 35, 36, 43, 46, 28, 54, 45, 26, 142, 438, 335, 593, 771, 645, 249, 175, 80

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-16 2.7, 10-17 2.6, 10-18 2.4, 10-19 2.9, 10-20 2.6, 10-21 2.6, 10-22 4.6, 10-23 5.5, 10-24 5.6, 10-25 5.8, 10-26 6.3, 10-27 5.6, 10-28 4.2, 10-29 3.5

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #42

## Similar by description

1. **pollen-robotics/microduck_rl** — 2.2 · Steady · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Python · +9 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:07–12:16 UTC, ≈ 17 by evening
   Reinforcement learning environments for the Microduck bipedal robot built on mjlab (MuJoCo Warp) with PPO: train walking and trick policies, export to ONNX, and deploy to the real robot.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/pollen-robotics/microduck_rl.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-29 12:24 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.