Hacker News with Generative AI: Robotics

Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions (psu.edu)
The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to influence customers’ decisions, according to new research from a team in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.
Robotics, Hospitality, Customer Behavior, Marketing, Gender Studies
11 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 6 comments
System lets robots identify an object's properties through handling (news.mit.edu)
With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.
Robotics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
3 points by gnabgib 17 hours ago | 0 comments
Creating Furniture-Scale Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machines (drive.google.com)
Laden…Inloggen
Robotics, 3D Printing, Furniture Design, Computer-Aided Manufacturing
3 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 0 comments
Amazon makes 'fundamental leap forward in robotics' device having sense of touch (theguardian.com)
Amazon said it has made a “fundamental leap forward in robotics” after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses.
Robotics, Amazon, AI, Warehousing
4 points by beardyw 2 days ago | 0 comments
Improving Flying Drones by Mimicking Flying Squirrels (hackaday.com)
With the ability to independently adjust the thrust of each of their four motors, quadcopters are exceptionally agile compared to more traditional aircraft. But in an effort to create an even more maneuverable drone platform, a group of South Korean researchers have studied adding flying squirrel tech to quadcopters.
Robotics, Engineering, Biology, Animals
4 points by devrandoom 3 days ago | 0 comments
Imagineers defend new Walt Disney robot (yahoo.com)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." That's one of Walt Disney's most popular quotes, often used in the context of the theme park marvels imagined by the company he created.
Disney, Robotics, Entertainment, Technology
49 points by rmason 4 days ago | 36 comments
RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning (ruka-hand.github.io)
This work presents RUKA, a tendon-driven humanoid hand that is compact, affordable, and capable. Made from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components, RUKA has 5 fingers with 15 underactuated degrees of freedom enabling diverse human-like grasps. Its tendon-driven actuation allows powerful grasping in a compact, human-sized form factor. To address control challenges, we learn joint-to-actuator and fingertip-to-actuator models from motion-capture data collected by the MANUS glove, leveraging the hand's morphological accuracy.
Robotics, Humanoid Robotics, 3D Printing, Machine Learning
8 points by helsinkiandrew 4 days ago | 0 comments
Robotics meets the culinary arts (epfl.ch)
A Swiss Italian team has created RoboCake, an edible robotic wedding cake that illustrates the advances in robotic food research.
Robotics, Food Technology, Culinary Arts, Switzerland
14 points by gnabgib 4 days ago | 1 comments
How Ukraine Is Replacing Human Soldiers with a Robot Army (forbes.com)
Last month, Ukrainian officials announced plans to field 15,000 ground robots – Uncrewed Ground Vehicles or UGVs -- in 2025.
Robotics, Military, Ukraine, War, Technology
9 points by 01-_- 4 days ago | 0 comments
Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel's Canon (arstechnica.com)
Japanese scientists at the University of Tsukuba have figured out how to transform cicadas into cyborg insects capable of "playing" Pachelbel's Canon.
Science, Robotics, Music, Insects
45 points by tomrod 6 days ago | 27 comments
Show HN: Kinematic Hand Skeleton Optimization in Jax (github.com/rerun-io)
A repo to explore training robots with Pi0 and Lerobot and human pose motion retargeting
Robotics, Machine Learning, Open Source, Jax, GitHub
20 points by pablovelagomez 7 days ago | 0 comments
Towards the Cutest Neural Network (kevinlynagh.com)
I recently needed to use a microcontroller to estimate the pose (translation and orientation) of an object using readings from six different sensors.
Neural Networks, Robotics, Machine Learning
120 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 24 comments
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis (sites.google.com)
Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive table tennis.
Robotics, AI, Table Tennis, Research
114 points by badmonster 8 days ago | 48 comments
Gaussian Splatting Meets ROS2 (github.com/shadygm)
ROSplat is the first online ROS2-based visualizer that leverages Gaussian splatting to render complex 3D scenes.
Robotics, Computer Vision, Software, 3D Graphics
61 points by shadygm 10 days ago | 15 comments
China Has an Army of Robots on Its Side in the Tariff War (nytimes.com)
China’s secret weapon in the trade war is an army of factory robots, powered by artificial intelligence, that have revolutionized manufacturing.
China, Trade Wars, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
7 points by thelastgallon 11 days ago | 2 comments
NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop (nasa.gov)
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28 — the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission — Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet.
Space Exploration, Mars, NASA, Robotics, Curiosity Rover
18 points by gnabgib 11 days ago | 0 comments
Robot Dexterity Still Seems Hard (construction-physics.com)
You can’t throw a rock these days without hitting someone trying to build humanoid robots.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering
72 points by mhb 13 days ago | 42 comments
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
282 points by ratsbane 13 days ago | 36 comments
Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Tracked Combat Robot Armed with the Browning MG (defence-ua.com)
Ukraine has officially integrated the Droid TW 12.7 robotic combat system into its Armed Forces.
Robotics, Military Technology, Ukraine, War, Weapons
7 points by rolph 13 days ago | 0 comments
Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition (huggingface.co)
Robotics, Open Source, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence
10 points by saeedesmaili 16 days ago | 1 comments
π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization (pi.website)
Robots have come a long way over the past few years—they can perform impressive acrobatic feats, dance on stage, follow language commands and, in some of our own results, perform complex tasks like folding laundry or cleaning off a table. But the biggest challenge in robotics is not in performing feats of agility or dexterity, but generalization: the ability to figure out how to correctly perform even a simple task in a new setting or with new objects.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
177 points by lachyg 17 days ago | 44 comments
Toyota's Test City Built Around AI and Robot Assisstants (woven-city.global)
Welcome to Toyota Woven City. This test course for mobility is driven by a collaborative community with a shared passion to enhance well-being for all. Here, we come together to co-create, test and bring to life products and services that address everyday societal challenges around the movement of people, goods, information and energy. This is the future of mobility.
AI, Robotics, Smart Cities, Transportation
4 points by jordanmorgan10 17 days ago | 0 comments
More than 20 robots race alongside humans at half marathon in Beijing (abc.net.au)
Humanoid robots have joined thousands of runners at a half marathon in Beijing — the first time these machines have raced alongside humans in a 21-kilometre course.
Robotics, Sports, China, Running, AI
5 points by Brajeshwar 17 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: I open-sourced my AI toy company that runs on ESP32 and OpenAI realtime (github.com/akdeb)
🚀 ElatoAI: Realtime AI Speech for ESP32
Open Source, AI, Hardware, Robotics
177 points by akadeb 17 days ago | 94 comments
Tiny, hackable telepresence robot for under $100 (hackaday.com)
Robotics, DIY, Hardware, Telepresence
9 points by jkestner 17 days ago | 2 comments
Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing (wired.com)
About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots.
Robotics, Sports, China
6 points by Utubepublisher 18 days ago | 0 comments
A Review of the Personal Humanoid Robots (readmultiplex.com)
Robots are AI in motion. In 2025, humanoid robots will begin to start entering into the homes of ordinary people (higher income at first), promising to transform daily life in ways reminiscent of the personal computer revolution.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Technology
20 points by delichon 19 days ago | 5 comments
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Beijing Marathon (wired.com)
About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half marathon race in Beijing on Saturday, but most of the attention was on a group of other, more unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots.
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Sports, China
11 points by gnabgib 19 days ago | 1 comments
Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner (github.com/PiLiDAR)
LiDAR: custom serial driver for LDRobot LD06, LD19 or STL27L
Robotics, Hardware, Raspberry Pi, LiDAR, Open Source
686 points by Venn1 20 days ago | 185 comments
Ask HN: How to transition into Robotics (ycombinator.com)
I would very much like to work on robotics in almost any capacity and am wondering if anyone can share any tips on how I might be able to break into the industry.
Robotics, Career Advice, Engineering
9 points by hdks 20 days ago | 9 comments