# Antoine Pirrone: engineer, Pollen Robotics

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R&D Engineer at [Pollen Robotics](/companies/pollen-robotics) (now Pollen Robotics × Hugging Face), where he is a core developer of the [Microduck](/models/microduck), a 25 cm tall open-source biped robot for physical AI and reinforcement learning research. He co-authored the Microduck launch announcement alongside Matthieu Lapeyre, Thomas Wolf, Augustin Crampette, Coralie Deplane, and Anne Charlotte Passanisi. He holds a PhD in robotics and deep learning and has contributed to the Reachy Mini desktop robot platform. Active on Hugging Face as @apirrone and on X as @antoinepirrone.

- **Nationality:** French
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Pollen Robotics](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/pollen-robotics.md) R&D Engineer (secondary-verified)

## Sources (3)

1. https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/
2. https://huggingface.co/apirrone
3. https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck


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