{"id":"dc64fa34-8db7-45df-94de-44cbbb1948ee","slug":"augustin-crampette","name":"Augustin Crampette","bioBrief":"Mechatronics and Robotics 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 biped robot with 15 motors designed for reinforcement learning and sim-to-real physical AI research. He was part of the Microduck launch team alongside Matthieu Lapeyre, Thomas Wolf, Antoine Pirrone, Coralie Deplane, and Anne Charlotte Passanisi. His work spans robot control, simulation, and sim-to-real deployment for small legged robots. Previously worked on the Reachy Mini desktop robot platform. Active on Hugging Face as @acrampette.","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/acrampette","title":"Augustin Crampette — Hugging Face","sourceName":"Hugging Face"},{"url":"https://github.com/pollen-robotics/microduck","title":"Microduck — GitHub repository","sourceName":"GitHub"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","createdAt":"2026-08-27T18:12:35.513Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-27T21:52:31.763Z","educations":[],"companyRoles":[{"id":"606b1e9b-ce9a-4aae-ad66-3b79623bc8d6","personId":"dc64fa34-8db7-45df-94de-44cbbb1948ee","companyId":"8c4f6593-1bb6-4935-890d-4f25281c8098","role":"engineer","roleTitle":"Mechatronics & Robotics Engineer","startDate":null,"endDate":null,"currentRole":true,"roleBasis":"verified_secondary","createdAt":"2026-08-27T18:12:36.351Z","company":{"slug":"pollen-robotics","name":"Pollen Robotics"}}],"boardRoles":[],"investorRoles":[],"foundings":[]}