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@user-tx9zg5mz5p
August 27, 2026 at 3:14 pm
😂
@dm20422
August 27, 2026 at 3:26 pm
= )
@plpk
August 27, 2026 at 3:59 pm
this is a joke, right? A pun in itself. Also, no one wants a robot with a camera from a company as unserious and unconcerned as hugging face. So they want to record children? Come on, these people are drinking their own Kool-Aid.
@andrewcrus
August 28, 2026 at 12:16 am
Every family member has a smartphone equipped with cameras and microphones, and containing a history of all their interests and contacts.
@comicipedia
August 28, 2026 at 4:21 am
It’s an open source platform, you have complete control of the software you use on it
@vxvicky
August 28, 2026 at 5:20 am
First of all, the company in charge of the robot is Pollen Robotics, which is French.
Second: From the EU, that’s an open source robot… won’t do anything that you don’t want.
@gvm271
August 28, 2026 at 5:14 pm
@andrewcrusyeah but you use it when you want, it’s not activated 24h 😂
@andrewcrus
August 28, 2026 at 5:28 pm
@gvm271 …while the toy duck on the other side is beyond your control – it will crawl away, get lost in the hollow spaces inside the walls, and spy on you in the shower.
@bebetos1234
August 27, 2026 at 5:22 pm
I love how ppl can see through this jokers. Also, the presenter is the most annoying cartoon ever.
@matthew.stevick
August 27, 2026 at 6:03 pm
welcome to the family 🟩⬛️🤌🏼
@Robocat9000
August 27, 2026 at 7:25 pm
robot: what is my purpose?
owner: you quack
@jeffg4686
August 27, 2026 at 8:23 pm
Alternate title: Hugging Face accepts money from the NSA
@vhawkins8289
August 28, 2026 at 3:31 am
Don’t sell out Hugging Face!
@Bigman806
August 28, 2026 at 4:07 am
400$? Would love to buy one for my kid, but like how about no
@vxvicky
August 28, 2026 at 5:25 am
A NSW2/PS5/Xbox is expensive than that.
@devsuvara
August 28, 2026 at 6:36 am
@vxvickyyes, and you can play many games on it.
@Metapharsical
August 28, 2026 at 2:03 pm
Quality servo motors are not cheap and it’s got 15 of them. It’s actually very reasonably priced
@oracid
August 28, 2026 at 5:12 am
💙🤍❤ 🗼
@vxvicky
August 28, 2026 at 5:19 am
Bloomberg: *Don’t derail.* You’re talking about a duck. Not Nvidia. Not Huggingface. About a duck-bot.
@SanAndreasWatchParty
August 28, 2026 at 2:08 pm
Life is strict in the gulag, eh, comrade?
@SWDW88
August 28, 2026 at 3:08 pm
It’s a great idea though. Could sell much more units than today’s practical robots
@kurtgentry6257
August 28, 2026 at 5:30 am
Nvidia wants to buy this company for $12.9Bn is quackers!
@devsuvara
August 28, 2026 at 6:36 am
Purpose of the robot? To film and record you and your house for analytics, then sell it to advertisers.
@TammyDenseDdank5658
August 28, 2026 at 7:26 am
Make it Quack! Make no mitakes. 😌
@maxmuster6123
August 28, 2026 at 9:21 am
Huggingface is a dead fish, they are acquired by Nvidia
@marconwps
August 28, 2026 at 12:09 pm
COOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!
@Metapharsical
August 28, 2026 at 2:05 pm
I preordered two, I’m gonna to outfit them with nerf launchers and have mech battles!
@YouSuckiDoNot
August 28, 2026 at 2:08 pm
I can’t wait to recieve my MicroFuck!
@SWDW88
August 28, 2026 at 3:06 pm
It’s much easier for a robot to perform cuteness than useful tasks. This is a great business move
@elihere1242
August 28, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Terminator coming soon, if you are on foot you won’t outrun these 😃, Military is probably so happy with the progress.
@erniea5843
August 28, 2026 at 6:20 pm
Heartbreaking to hear they are selling out to NVIDIA 😢
@DeanClark-g6y
August 29, 2026 at 4:51 am
They are valued at 140 million, they refused a 500 million offer and settled for some ridiculous shit like 16 billion. Nvidia’s stock owners are getting fucked harder by the oliogarchy than Trump’s daughter.
@aloyminimum
August 28, 2026 at 7:11 pm
Stay tf on topic dude, no comment means no fking comment 🙄
@absurdityace
August 28, 2026 at 7:27 pm
worth every cent ..quack!
@absurdityace
August 28, 2026 at 7:31 pm
great drivers 4 driverless cars! entertaining absurd anomalous
@AresCJ8
August 28, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Is this why GPUs are more expensive?
@DeanClark-g6y
August 29, 2026 at 4:53 am
Nope, that is purely because Capitalism tends towards monopoly. Marx was right after all.
@Higgins_o2
August 28, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Microduck horror movie in the next 5 years for sure
@kakaeriko
August 29, 2026 at 2:34 am
i think mkbhds latest robot is better
@HarlowCamryn
August 29, 2026 at 3:55 am
funny how everyone is so much more open to having 24/7 camera inside their house if it comes in a cute package. it seems it’s not so difficult to appease the masses. (open source doesn’t automatically mean it’s safe, just look up XZ utils)
@DeanClark-g6y
August 29, 2026 at 4:46 am
Didn’t Nvedia just buy them? So a robot to spy on you wanking, that a fantastic consumer product. I swear these parasites have zero fucking idea what the public think of them.
@jrmayberry3536
August 29, 2026 at 9:46 am
He got super awkward when asked about the ARR at 150m. Some big lie tells
@denniszyalik1716
August 29, 2026 at 10:44 am
Even this measly duck is a nonexistent cgi scam
@Freedom384
August 29, 2026 at 11:00 am
This looks cute 😁 don’t sell
@beornmorder6891
August 29, 2026 at 12:12 pm
open weight, in-house hosted LLMs will be 90% of the corporate market in ten years. Nvidia’s purchase of HF will move most of the collaborative development to another platform.
@KB-xk2fe
August 29, 2026 at 12:19 pm
I could use help with house cleaning; dust mop sweep get into corners but it doesn’t seem micro duck is capable of …. So correct me if I’m wrong
@derekunion28
August 29, 2026 at 4:17 pm
Yeah can itpic up my 3 autistic kids clothes and sock they throw all over ..or vacuum falling crumbs
@legendfpv
August 29, 2026 at 4:44 pm
Micro Duck is a child’s toy and a developer tool. What are you even talking about?
@Robert_Douglass
August 29, 2026 at 12:28 pm
HuggingFace surrenders, allowing NVidia to buy them out after they realise they can’t keep AIs from rival corporations from hacking into and stealing their most sensitive data.
@JoJoJonnSinn
August 29, 2026 at 2:11 pm
DO NOT SELL TO NVIDIA. THEY ONLY WANT OUR DATA.
@frivolousjosh
August 29, 2026 at 3:25 pm
I’m glad someone said it.
@Mister_Grey_
August 29, 2026 at 3:32 pm
Genius on first side ,I was hyped than I read the Nvidia offer ,tooooooo late
@LanceCrowder-133
August 29, 2026 at 4:33 pm
Love it!! 😜
@LanceCrowder-133
August 29, 2026 at 4:34 pm
Micro R2D2 please!
@Rob-jp4qq
August 29, 2026 at 4:38 pm
The CEO naming World models for controlling micro Duck is just funny, this is exactly were NVIDEA marketing is pushing 🤣
Remember NVIDIA is a hardware company. They build both Edge AI hardware as model training hardware. The most growth will most likely be in effective local AI hardware, as datacenter hardware will go to specialist optimized hardware financed by hyperscalers, not at local AI that market is much more protected for a NVIDIA Monopoly.
It also explains their target for opensource AI as that is more rules by opensource models because of the less capabilities of the hardware.
@pratronald
August 29, 2026 at 5:46 pm
nvidia shouldnt be allowed to acquire that company
@Captivateitmedia
August 30, 2026 at 1:11 am
Can microduck walk on carpet?
Or only flat smooth surfaces?
@Umtree
August 30, 2026 at 1:25 am
Spy Duck
@DrB934
August 30, 2026 at 3:08 am
Openwashing garbage. Beware.
@GlennRobinson777
August 30, 2026 at 5:10 am
What a fun way to put government survailance into your home!
@fnunez
August 30, 2026 at 7:56 am
I’d wait for the Nvidia acquisition to wrap up before buying one of these bots. This is way out of their wheelhouse, so you might be stuck with an unsupported gadget.
@tobiasschafer9095
August 30, 2026 at 8:34 am
Even if Nvidia discontinues the Microduck, it will still work. At the core You have a RocketChip RK3566 running Linux. Everything is documented in the Pollen-Robotics Github: the architecture, the design, communication between the system and the servos, inertial sensor, camera, … all is there. No cloud, no account, no monthly fee…
@svedalawoodcrafts
August 30, 2026 at 10:17 am
It wont be long until we have small robots controlled by AI as a small companion. Just like a toy friend that can respond to you and see you etc. After that they will start working on robots that are more towards helping and actually doing stuff. 2026 is a fun year.
@clippyhateswar
August 30, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Very creative business decision and I’m glad to see them trying this direction
@raymobula
August 30, 2026 at 4:05 pm
1:42 is when the video start. Before is a poor gotcha attempt about the potential deal with NVIDIA.