Observed arrival · 2026-09-02

Microduck Studio, With a Physics Bench for a Robot That Hasn't Arrived

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An independent iOS app for inspecting robot policies, authoring motions, and measuring them in MuJoCo before a Microduck reaches its owner.

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The project separates phone-side previews from measurements made by a Node program running MuJoCo on another machine, with the app connecting over the user's network. Its documented formats include .duckmove for keyframed motions, .duckplan for fetch plans, and .duckintent for recorded policy runs. The accompanying physics bundle ships scene.mjb and its digest so results made against different worlds are not treated as comparable.

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