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A lineup of small hobby robots on a workbench: a two-legged robot, a robot dog, a desktop companion, and a robotic arm
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7 best Microduck alternatives in 2026: robots you can actually buy

Sold out or scared off by the 4-6 month wait? Here are the best Microduck alternatives in 2026, from the $289 Petoi to the $13,500 Unitree G1, with real prices.

Kurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieKurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieAug 30, 2026
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OpenAI's Jalapeño chip: what it is and why it matters

OpenAI's Jalapeño is its first custom AI chip, an inference ASIC built with Broadcom. Here's what it does, the benchmark numbers, and why it matters.

Alicia Kirana UtomoAlicia Kirana UtomoAug 30, 2026
Illustration of two people at a laptop next to a small Microduck robot on roller skates
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Microduck pricing: what Hugging Face's $399 robot duck really costs

Microduck pricing starts at $399, but that is before tax, shipping, and the add-on packs. Here is the real cost of Hugging Face's open-source robot duck.

Alicia Kirana UtomoAlicia Kirana UtomoAug 30, 2026
A cartoon two-legged robot duck waddling between two makers at a workbench
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Microduck: Hugging Face's $399 open-source robot duck, explained

Microduck is Hugging Face's $399 open-source biped you train with reinforcement learning. Here's what it is, what it can do, and whether it's worth pre-ordering.

Alicia Kirana UtomoAlicia Kirana UtomoAug 30, 2026
Cohere Parse 5 review: a document being scanned and split into tables, text and charts
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Cohere Parse 5 review: is the $1.50 document parser worth it?

A hands-on Cohere Parse 5 review: what parse-v5.0 does, its ParseBench scores, the $1.50-per-1,000-pages pricing, the real limits, and who should use it.

Rama Adi NugrahaRama Adi NugrahaAug 30, 2026
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The 8 best Qwen 3.8 Flash Next alternatives in 2026

The best Qwen 3.8 Flash Next alternatives in 2026, from GLM 5.3 Flash to DeepSeek V4 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash, with real pricing and who each one is for.

Kurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieKurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieAug 30, 2026
Skild AI S1 robotics foundation model that learns a task from a single video demonstration
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Skild AI S1: the robot brain that learns from one video

Skild AI's S1 learns a brand-new robot task from a single video, no retraining. Here's what the 66%-vs-9% benchmark means and why it's a real step-change.

Alicia Kirana UtomoAlicia Kirana UtomoAug 30, 2026
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Claude Cowork browser: what Anthropic's built-in agentic browser does

Anthropic put a real browser inside the Claude Cowork desktop app. Here is what the Claude Cowork browser does, which plans get it, and where it fits.

Alicia Kirana UtomoAlicia Kirana UtomoAug 29, 2026
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6 best Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash alternatives for AI video in 2026

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is not the only AI video model worth your budget. Here are six real alternatives, from Runway and Veo 3.1 to Kling, Luma, Seedance, and Grok Imagine, compared on price, controls, and access.

Kurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieKurnia Kharisma Agung SamiadjieAug 29, 2026

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