Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
TL;DR
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang played with Microducks during a GTC Berlin keynote, which went viral.
- Over 20,000 Microducks were preordered by the next day.
- The robots are expected to be delivered by Christmas and could be the best-selling robot of the year.
- Microducks are open source devices from Pollen Robotics, acquired by Hugging Face, which was later acquired by Nvidia.
- They were trained using Nvidia's technology stack, with owners able to train them further and share tricks.
- The article suggests Microducks offer a fun aspect to AI, contrasting with recent negative AI news.