apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini

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Open Duck Mini is an open-source project to build a miniature (~42cm) bipedal robot inspired by Disney's BDX droid, with a bill of materials under $400. The repository centralizes CAD designs, simulation setup, and reinforcement learning policies (trained in MuJoCo) for making the robot walk.

Use cases

• build a mini BDX droid robot
• train walking policies with reinforcement learning
• sim2real transfer for bipedal robots
• convert Onshape CAD to MuJoCo simulation
• low-cost open-source bipedal robot kit

When to choose

• you want to build a small open-source bipedal robot on a budget
• you're learning RL-based locomotion and sim2real workflows
• you want a community-supported DIY robotics project

When to avoid

• you need a polished, fully documented product
• you need a wheeled or quadruped robot instead of bipedal
• you want turnkey hardware without assembly and tuning

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machine-learning reinforcement-learning simulation robotics robotics reinforcement-learning hardware simulation python open-hardware bipedal-robot mujoco sim2real diy-robot onnx linux gpu

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