@hyperbolic.ai: What you're watching is episode one of a series, posted by someone who works at the company that makes both robots. The duck is Microduck, the white one is Reachy Mini, and both come from Pollen Robotics, which Hugging Face bought in April 2025. That's worth knowing because of what the clip is doing. The comments are full of WALL-E and people asking where to buy one, which is the whole function of a cute robot short film. The claim attached to it is that Microduck is open source. Half of that is true. Two repos sit on GitHub under Apache 2.0, the runtime and the reinforcement learning pipeline. The CAD, the schematics and the board files were never published. Reachy Mini, the older robot in the same video, was open on hardware and software both. So the label survived while the thing it described shrank. Also worth knowing if one ends up in a living room: it carries a camera and microphones, and installed apps can reach both and send what they capture elsewhere. Cute is a design decision. 🔎 We fact-checked 10 expert AI predictions so you know whose calls are worth listening to. It's free in bio. Follow @hyperbolic.ai for more content on AI and technology. Media: Rémi Fabre #robots #microduck #huggingface #opensource #technology

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