Microduck Blog https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/ Build logs, deep dives and news from the team teaching a very small duck to walk. en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT SLAM on Microduck with an 8×8 depth sensor https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/microduck-slam/ https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/microduck-slam/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microduck maps the room it walks in and finds itself again after being carried somewhere else, with leg odometry and an 8×8 depth sensor, fully onboard. How it works, and how a ground-truth rig turned a map that looked like noise into one we can measure. Antoine Pirrone Engineering Where did the duck go? Odometry from two feet and an IMU https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/microduck-odometry/ https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/microduck-odometry/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Microduck has no wheel encoders and no positioning system, and it still knows where it walked to within a few centimetres per metre. How the contact odometry works, with the maths, and how wrong it gets. Antoine Pirrone Engineering Meet Microduck https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/ https://pollemrobotics.shop/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why we built a small biped robot, how it complements Reachy Mini, and where we hope it can go. Matthieu Lapeyre Thomas Wolf Antoine Pirrone Augustin Crampette Coralie Deplane Anne Charlotte Passanisi Announcement Open source