{"id":"7f096e4d-29d9-41c5-8af0-aa65a612889d","slug":"antoine-pirrone","name":"Antoine Pirrone","bioBrief":"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.","priorExits":null,"nationality":"French","verificationPosture":"verified","aliases":[],"sources":[{"url":"https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/","title":"Meet Microduck | Pollen Robotics","sourceName":"Pollen Robotics (official)"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/apirrone","title":"Antoine Pirrone — Hugging Face","sourceName":"Hugging Face"},{"url":"https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck","title":"Microduck — GitHub repository","sourceName":"GitHub"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","createdAt":"2026-08-27T18:12:30.975Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-27T21:52:33.015Z","educations":[],"companyRoles":[{"id":"46a51168-c1b0-488e-89ec-6c25f3f2b92a","personId":"7f096e4d-29d9-41c5-8af0-aa65a612889d","companyId":"8c4f6593-1bb6-4935-890d-4f25281c8098","role":"engineer","roleTitle":"R&D Engineer","startDate":null,"endDate":null,"currentRole":true,"roleBasis":"verified_secondary","createdAt":"2026-08-27T18:12:31.810Z","company":{"slug":"pollen-robotics","name":"Pollen Robotics"}}],"boardRoles":[],"investorRoles":[],"foundings":[]}