How Pollen robotics launched Microduck on X
1.6M views, ranked 554 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
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We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to. Train it in simulation, run it on the real thing. Meet Microduck 🦆 $399, shipping before Christmas.
How it compares
A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product release the same kind of announcement | 954 | 692K | 2.3x | 267 |
| 5K to 25K followers accounts of a similar size | 479 | 582K | 2.8x | 120 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 2.4x | 554 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 19K followers, this reached 84.8 times the account's own following. Accounts in the same band, 5K to 25K followers, reach a median of 50.8 times their following, so this travelled about 1.7 times further than usual for its size.
It ranks 120 of 479 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 2.4 times the median of 688K views.
Quote posts led, 562 of them at 3.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.3.
People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 2K. Reposts: 636.
The first line is “We built a small biped robot you can teach new tricks to”. It carries a 51-second video against a directory median of 65 seconds.
Videos between 30 and 90 seconds have a median of 603K views in the directory. The copy runs 32 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41.
The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it. It went out on a Thursday. Launches posted on a Thursday have a median of 724K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
Giving people something to reply to covers this: the conversation is what carried this one. For the next one, read X analytics explained: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size. Every launch we track in Robotics is on that vertical's directory page.
Questions about this launch
When did Pollen robotics launch Microduck?
Pollen robotics posted the launch on X on 27 August 2026.
How many views did the Microduck launch post get?
1,622,588 views at the last read, ranked 554 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 85 times the account's following.
Who posted the Microduck launch?
@pollenrobotics, which has 19K followers.
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