Hacker News with Generative AI: Humanoid Robots

Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot (berkeley-humanoid.org)
Despite significant interest and advancements in humanoid robotics, most existing commercially available hardware remains high-cost, closed-source, and non-transparent within the robotics community.
Robotics, Open Source, Hardware, Humanoid Robots
134 points by ratsbane 8 hours ago | 7 comments
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon for first time (theguardian.com)
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course.
Robotics, China, Sports, Humanoid Robots, Artificial Intelligence
7 points by n1b0m 7 days ago | 0 comments
Robotics Meets Runway: Unitree G1's Catwalk Debut at SHFW (chinaminutes.com)
Unitree G1, a humanoid robot, made its stunning debut at Shanghai Fashion Week, walking the runway alongside human models.
Robotics, Fashion, China, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid Robots
35 points by lewiswatson 30 days ago | 8 comments
Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility (newatlas.com)
Chinese humanoids are starting to move with extraordinary grace and agility, but Boston Dynamics is the OG in this field, and fresh video of its swivel-jointed Atlas robot running, cartwheeling and breakdancing shows it's still at the bleeding edge.
Robotics, Humanoid Robots, Boston Dynamics, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
101 points by matthewsinclair 36 days ago | 76 comments
Robotics China's Electric-Vehicle-to-Humanoid-Robot Pivot (technologyreview.com)
Here’s what the country’s big bet on robots might mean for the rest of the globe.
Robotics, China, Electric Vehicles, Humanoid Robots
5 points by m463 65 days ago | 0 comments
Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022) (cycleworld.com)
This goat prances or lets you ride, showing Kawi’s focus on humanoid development.
Robotics, Kawasaki, Humanoid Robots, Animals, Technology
39 points by rmason 129 days ago | 24 comments
Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control (exbody2.github.io)
This paper enables real-world humanoid robots to maintain stability while performing expressive motions like humans do.
Robotics, Humanoid Robots, AI, Control Theory
94 points by moatmoat 129 days ago | 25 comments
AgiBot X1, a modular humanoid robot with high dof (github.com/AgibotTech)
AgiBot X1 is a modular humanoid robot with high dof developed and open-sourced by AgiBot. It is built upon AgiBot's open-source framework AimRT as middleware and using reinforcement learning for locomotion control.
Robotics, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid Robots
50 points by jinqueeny 180 days ago | 8 comments
Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent (unitree.com)
Robotics, Humanoid Robots, New Releases
195 points by anigbrowl 347 days ago | 123 comments
New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] (youtube.com)
Robotics, Humanoid Robots, Video, Boston Dynamics
119 points by davej 374 days ago | 3 comments