Morian Duck — a trust-first robot companion
Robots can feel intimidating — rigid, unfamiliar, always watching. Morian Duck is the opposite: a soft, expressive companion that earns trust the way a pet does. Gentle to touch, honest about its camera, and already learning to waddle.
Meet Morian Duck
A fabric outer shell and compliant joints make it safe to touch, hold, and bump into — closer to a plush toy than a machine.
Motion you can trust
Reinforcement-learned movement maps feelings to smooth, organic motion — no jerky servo snaps, no sudden moves. What you're scrubbing right now is the point: every step is gentle.
Privacy, said plainly
The camera exists so the duck can walk and respond to you — not to record your home. What it sees is processed for navigation and interaction, with clear controls you can see and touch.
Soft polyester shell over compliant joints. Designed for hands of every age — and tested to be non-threatening at first sight.
A working bipedal chassis with articulated legs, a camera-equipped head, and small wing manipulators. The prototype already walks.
Head tilts, slow blinks, little waddles. Emotion is expressed through movement — trained to feel organic, never mechanical.
Familiar pet-like robots first, so people grow comfortable before more capable robots arrive. Trust is the product.
Where it helps
In eldercare homes, Morian Duck is a calm companion that looks up when you talk — quiet presence, not another screen.
Kindergartens and classrooms use it to introduce robotics gently: something to care for, not something to fear. And in hospitality, it's the small welcome guests remember.
For builders
Morian Duck ships as a kit with a basic API and teleop interface. Fourteen serial-bus servos, a camera head, feet contact switches, and an onboard policy you can talk to.
We're freezing the v1 design now. Waitlist members hear first about early units, school and care-home pilots, and the developer kit.