Microduck

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #149

_joel wrote: post #22

It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

Boni seems more like a closed project and I'd rather have something where access isn't an afterthought as indicated on the Kickstarter. > Right now, we simply haven't reached any conclusions regarding developer tools, documentation, or access. We haven't done the planning or the groundwork yet. Our current plan is to look into all of this after we've shipped the first batch and things settle down a bit.

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #54

unglaublich wrote: post #32

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Will Beni/monodorobotics have open source software, or at least a hackable stack?

Hey we're on HN where __anything__ is hackable :) (Except iDevices of course)

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

trebligdivad wrote: post #65

Oh so this is why Nvidia (edit: trying to buy)/bought Hugging Face, $1B for all the ai sharing and stuff, and $12B for the duck!

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:04 AM UTC

jamesponddotco wrote: post #73

telecuda wrote: post #36

It doesn't walk like a duck, but Reachy Mini by HF/Pollen Robotics is a great entry-level robot. And you get to assemble it! Direct links: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ https://pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini/

I use one to control my house with Home Assistant. It's pretty great, and it was a lot of fun to assemble.

Post by rokbenko » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 9:04 AM UTC

lagrange77 wrote: post #134

jamesponddotco wrote: post #88

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Not much to say, really; it controls my house in Home Assistant using an LLM, and a STT/TTS server. It acts as the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, with a trigger word and whatnot. It's basically like giving an Alexa, Siri, or Gemini a body. It moves, show "emotions", comments when someone enter the room, uses the camera to see who entered the room and comment on that, make comments when my 3D printer finishes,…

> It moves, show "emotions", comments when someone enter the room, uses the camera to see who entered the room and comment on that, make comments when my 3D printer finishes, things like that. So basically you're using it as an AI mother in law, nice.