Ankur Tiwari@ankurtiwariMeet MicroDuck — a tiny open-source robot that brings software engineering into the physical world.
For developers, this is more than a cool robot. It opens up some fascinating possibilities:
🧠 Reinforcement learning — train behaviours through rewards instead of hardcoding every movement.
🧪 Simulation to reality — experiment virtually, then test what actually works on hardware.
🔧 Open-source experimentation — inspect the code, modify behaviours, and build your own experiments.
🤖 Embodied AI — move beyond APIs and chatbots into systems that interact with the real world.
Imagine writing code, training a policy, deploying it to a robot, watching it fail, and iterating until it works.
That's a software development feedback loop — with motors, sensors, and gravity involved.
The next frontier for developers isn't just building smarter software. It's teaching software to act.
Would you experiment with a robot as your next side project?
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