Apparently, a lot of people want a nearly 10-inch-tall robot duck.
On Friday, Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf wrote in a post on X that customers placed more than $2.6 million worth of orders for Microduck during its first 24 hours on sale. The update came after Wolf said on Thursday, roughly six hours after the product was announced, that preorders had already topped $1 million.
The $399 Microduck was unveiled Thursday by Pollen Robotics, the French robotics company Hugging Face acquired last year, with a goal for first deliveries around Christmastime. The companies didn’t immediately respond to requests for more information about the orders.
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