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From 15 Dynamixel servos to a headless Rust daemon architecture and on-device RL policies, here is how the open-source community can customize, train, and expand Microduck.
FlashDreams is NVIDIA's Apache 2.0 inference framework for real-time autoregressive world models. Built for robotics synthetic training data and sim-to-real pipelines, it delivers 68–103 FPS closed-loop generation with OmniDreams on GB300, and ships first-party integrations for OmniDreams, Cosmos-Predict2.5, and Self-Forcing.
The human hand is a 27-bone masterpiece honed over millions of years of evolution. Replicating it in silicon and steel is why companies are spending decades and billions on a single appendage. Here is why the hand matters, why it is so hard to build, and which open-source projects are democratizing dexterity.
From Open Duck Mini to Zeroth Bot — a survey of the open source humanoid robot projects you can actually build, study, or contribute to today.