Running Pollen Robotics as a service, AI Agents

Microduck Agency Implementation, Training and Deploying Robot Behaviors

Learn how to structure client engagements around Microduck's sim-to-real workflow, from designing behaviors in MuJoCo simulation to deploying trained policies on physical hardware. This course covers pricing your robot training services, managing client workshops during policy development, and building repeatable delivery processes that compress feedback loops from weeks to hours.

Open the decision record for Pollen Robotics

What it commits you to

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Not published (hardware is a one-time cost of $399 pre-order, but no subscription fees are mentioned)
Time to first value
Not published (setup complexity is medium but no explicit time frame is given)
Payback
Not modeled (requires client pricing, labor, usage, overhead, and volume data)
Guided implementation
8 hours

Assessment

The evidence supports that Microduck is a viable platform for hands-on AI/robotics demonstrations, but the agency must invest in technical expertise and hardware setup. The lack of multi-client management and white-labeling limits its scalability as a pure service tool.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Microduck hardware (pre-order $399)
  • MuJoCo physics simulator
  • Python development environment
  • Git and GitHub account
  • Discord account for community support

People and inputs

  • Open-source SDK and RL training stack on GitHub
  • Hugging Face integration for model sharing
  • Documentation for robotctl command-line tools
  • Pre-trained behavior policies from the community

Estimated investment: Lowest hardware cost is $399 (pre-order) plus any additional tools and resources; no additional setup fees are mentioned.

Included with the course

6 working documents for delivering this service.

  • Microduck Project Scoping Worksheetworksheet
  • Sim-to-Real Delivery Timeline Templatetemplate
  • Robot Behavior Training SOPsop
  • Dev Pack vs. Accessory Pack Pricing Guideguide
  • Client Workshop Facilitation Checklistchecklist
  • Policy Retraining and Iteration Playbookguide

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.