# Antoine Pirrone (in this topic) Hub: [[Topics/Embodied AI/Embodied AI|Embodied AI]] - **Who:** a Pollen Robotics engineer on Microduck's core team, [@antoinepirrone](https://x.com/antoinepirrone). Remi Fabre calls him a former student of his. - **His video is the source of @Yumzlef's clip.** [Mon Oct 12, 2026, 10:28 AM CT](https://x.com/antoinepirrone/status/2109667437503193163): "Here's 3 minutes of uncut Microduck testing on carpet" (237,964 impressions). Its 0:40–1:00 stretch matches the analyzed post's 20 seconds at 1:1 speed. See [[Users/@Yumzlef/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - yumzlef on Microduck Robots and the Fake Grok Brain Overlay (2026-10-24)|the analysis]]. - **GTC Berlin:** piloted the "Graphite" duck (per Fabre). - **Onboard work:** Fabre says he "just released two very cool blog posts… on odometry… [and] about SLAM", and that "all of this runs on the robot." (Not read ⚠️.) - ◻ He created the earlier Open Duck Mini open-source robot, Microduck's predecessor (background, not re-checked).