{
  "id": 3765472,
  "title": "Pollen Robotics’ Microduck aims to make training physical AI far less fragile and cheaper",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/pollen-robotics-microduck-aims-to-make-training-physical-ai-far-less",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-27T14:30:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Digital Trends",
    "slug": "digital-trends",
    "url": "https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/pollen-robotics-microduck-aims-to-make-training-physical-ai-far-less-fragile-and-cheaper/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Pollen Robotics’ Microduck is a tiny $399 biped designed to make physical AI training more accessible, letting developers experiment with new robotic behaviors on hardware that can survive the occasional tumble.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}