# Microduck learns footstep planning for more precise landing positions

> Original title: microduck is learning to plan its footsteps, so it lands more precisely where it wants to go

- Source: Thomas Wolf
- Published: 2026-10-28T17:51:12.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/z8pzwola0a62t58fvuz73w850
- Original: https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2115501650312053152

## Summary

Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf says microduck is learning to plan its footsteps so it lands more precisely where it intends to go. He frames this as one building block, with SLAM, toward an open-source robot duck that can roam a house on its own. Antoine Pirrone reports that footstep planning improves relative positioning on Microduck.

## Post

microduck is learning to plan its footsteps, so it lands more precisely where it wants to go

with SLAM, this is one of the building blocks toward an open-source 🦆 that can wander around the house on its own

early steps but it's progressing really fast and it's fun to watch

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2115500094220861440%2Fimg%2F_L-lYE4CvfVc-kCz.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793404800&sig=271bd15b0997e867)

## Quoted post @antoinepirrone

> I have been playing with footstep planning on Microduck for more accurate relative positioning, looks promising !

https://x.com/antoinepirrone/status/2115484012747628890