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◆ A.D. 2026 — MIT MEDIA LAB

Rabourackey

An AI-powered mechanical duck that listens to your code and pecks fixes onto the keyboard.

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Rubber Ducky 86 — a yellow rubber duck mounted on a beige retro computer with a small CRT screen and keyboard
▸ Program
MIT Media Lab — Tangible Media Group
▸ Team
Q. Kuang · Y. Wang · L. Huang · K. Zhang · H. Tang
▸ Prize
HARD MODE 2026 · Anthropic Prize Winner
ABOUT.TXT

▌ MISSION BRIEFING

A grumpy mechanical duck that pecks fixes into your code — built to stress-test LLMs in the physical world.

> HYPOTHESIS

We built Rubber Ducky to stress-test LLMs in the physical world. Because the bill can’t hit single keys precisely, the duck constantly makes and corrects errors while replanning its movements. We gave it a grumpy personality — it quacks, complains, and begrudgingly types through its Sisyphean task.

> QUESTION

The project pulls “vibe coding” into the physical world, asking: if humans can continuously adapt, re-plan, and correct actions in real time, can AI do the same?

▌ SYSTEM SPECS

How the duck comes to life.

  • MOD_01.SYS
    01MODULE 01/03

    Four-bar linkage neck

    Two degrees of freedom — extension and pecking — driven by two servos, giving the duck a dexterous, bird-like reach across the keyboard.

    DIAGNOSTIC · NOMINAL

  • MOD_02.SYS
    02MODULE 02/03

    Inverse kinematics

    Servo ranges optimized through simulation, with IK solved via a compact circle-intersection method to keep motion stable and non-flipping on a microcontroller.

    DIAGNOSTIC · NOMINAL

  • MOD_03.SYS
    03MODULE 03/03

    Distributed AI runtime

    Mechanics, audio, sensing, and AI coordinated over HTTP: a central server assigns tasks while distributed modules execute and report back.

    DIAGNOSTIC · NOMINAL

▌ TRANSMISSION LOG

The duck went VIRAL.

Within days of posting, clips of Rubber Ducky pecking through code spread across YouTube, Instagram, and X — racking up millions of views and getting picked up by tech, design, and AI communities worldwide.

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▶ FIELD CAPTURE — REELS

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> The duck meets its keyboard for the first time.
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> Pecking through a stubborn bug, complaining the whole time.

▸ Reels embedded from instagram.com — open in app for sound and full controls.

▌ CREW MANIFEST

The humans behind the duck.

Five designers, makers, and engineers from MIT Media Lab and Harvard GSD. Hit any portrait to follow them across the wire.

▌ ORIGIN STUDIO

Brought to you by Tangible Interface.

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> MANIFESTO

We design the future of AI hardware.

Tangible Interface is a research and design studio building a new generation of physical objects in which artificial intelligence can think, move, and live. Rubber Ducky is the first transmission — more AI hardware experiments are already on the bench.

  • ▸ Tangible objects + AI behavior
  • ▸ Hardware research × industrial design
  • ▸ New projects in development — A.D. 2026
  • ▸ Boston · MA · Sector 86
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