Ranger Duck is a robot prototype built with Pollen Robotics’ simulator and MuJoCo physics engine, using real animal videos to train AI agents to respond naturally, interact with animals, observe wildlife over time, and engage with pets while tracking their activities.
Review the project
Start with the source code, then open the demo or video if available.
Pollen Robotics’ MicroDuck simulator, MuJoCo WebAssembly physics, Three.js rendering, and ONNX Runtime Web movement policies.
Agent and evaluation:
Codex with MCP search tools; Weights & Biases for tracing and evaluation.
Video infrastructure:
VSS, VastDB, and S3 for searchable clips, captions, metadata, detections, and playback; VAST DataEngine with Cosmos3-Reason, YOLO11, and Cosmos Embed1 for descriptions, detections, and embeddings.
Application:
React and TypeScript frontend with a Python FastAPI backend.