30 August 2026
Pollen Robotics sells 10,000 duck robots powered by Chinese chip in days
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- Pollen Robotics, a French startup owned by Hugging Face, launched Microduck, a programmable duck-shaped robot for $399, and sold over 10,000 units since Thursday, generating more than $4 million in revenue.
- The robot runs on a Rockchip RK3566 chip, made by a Shanghai-listed Chinese company that uses technology licensed from British semiconductor firm ARM, showing how global supply chains connect robotics hardware.