Hacker News with Generative AI: Robotics

MuJoco Playground (mujoco.org)
We introduce MuJoCo Playground, a fully open-source framework for robot learning built with MJX, with the express goal of streamlining simulation, training, and sim-to-real transfer onto robots.

Robotics, Open Source, Simulation, Machine Learning, Software

75 points by kzakka 1 day ago | 5 comments

Anduril Building Arsenal-1 Hyperscale Manufacturing Facility in Ohio (anduril.com)
A family of autonomous systems, powered by Lattice, that provides integrated, persistent awareness and security across land, sea and air -- all at the tactical edge.

Robotics, Manufacturing, Defense, Artificial Intelligence, Ohio

15 points by rntn 1 day ago | 15 comments

Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, Engineering, Hardware, Video

208 points by f1shy 3 days ago | 78 comments

Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system (p2p.industries)
Coordinate swarms of robots, drones, or any debian-powered machine in a fully decentralized way! Without internet connection, without orchestration servers.

Robotics, Decentralized Systems, Software, Open Source

51 points by hannesfur 4 days ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please (ycombinator.com)
I've spent 15 years building a career in robotics/software engineering along the "traditional path": writing software to solve problems, mastering fundamentals, and architecting complex systems. I stay on top of cutting-edge technologies to stay relevant, but I’ve mostly seen AI/LLMs as powerful tools for augmenting specific tasks rather than fundamentally reshaping engineering as a discipline.

Nvidia, CES, Robotics, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

54 points by btbt 6 days ago | 15 comments

Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 (rodneybrooks.com)
This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them at the start of the year every year until 2050 (right after my 95th birthday), thirty two years in total. The idea is to hold myself accountable for those predictions. How right or wrong was I?

Predictions, Future, Technology, Robotics, Space Travel

243 points by timr 8 days ago | 185 comments

Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a recent Mechanical Engineering / CS graduate working in the Sales Engineering space for a cybersecurity company.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Careers, Software Engineering

79 points by _js4b 8 days ago | 64 comments

Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra (robotics.umich.edu)
Computational Linear Algebra is a pilot first-semester, first-year undergraduate course that will show how mathematics and computation are unified for reasoning about data and making discoveries about the world.

Robotics, Education, Linear Algebra, Mathematics, Computation

296 points by jamesliudotcc 10 days ago | 73 comments

Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024) (harimus.github.io)
So now that the International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA) 2024 is over, maybe it’s finally time to finish up my thoughts around the difference of the problems we are faced with in robotics vs AI research and to shed light to that difference and some misconceptions.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Misconceptions

154 points by wallflower 10 days ago | 80 comments

Google is building its own 'world modeling' AI team for games and robot training (theverge.com)
Google DeepMind is assembling a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop “world models” that can simulate physical environments.

Artificial Intelligence, Games, Robotics, Google

19 points by rntn 10 days ago | 4 comments

Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air (ieee.org)
On the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is home to many roboticists. It’s also home to many birds, which spend the majority of their time doing bird things.

Robotics, Drones, Engineering, Biomimicry

193 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 65 comments

Spherical robocop in China offers glimpse into future of law enforcement (newsflare.com)
Police officers in Wenzhou City of eastern China's Zhejiang Province are testing a new robotic security guard, which was out on patrol recently.

Robotics, Law Enforcement, China, Security

6 points by peteforde 12 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Why haven't we progressed in Consumer Robots? (ycombinator.com)
I've seen countless videos about robots, but seems like up until now there isn't a meaningful product that can be considered a home robot that can do a range of things.

Robotics, Consumer Products, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

12 points by halamadrid 13 days ago | 9 comments

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models (2023) (robotics-transformer2.github.io)
We study how vision-language models trained on Internet-scale data can be incorporated directly into end-to-end robotic control to boost generalization and enable emergent semantic reasoning.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Vision-Language Models, Machine Learning

76 points by elsewhen 17 days ago | 13 comments

Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth (ft.com)

Robotics, Nvidia, Business, Technology, Investments

188 points by pella 19 days ago | 146 comments

Armada: Augmented Reality for Robot Manipulation and Robot-Free Data Acquisition (arxiv.org)
Teleoperation for robot imitation learning is bottlenecked by hardware availability. Can high-quality robot data be collected without a physical robot?

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Acquisition

6 points by sandwichsphinx 21 days ago | 0 comments

I built a robot in my studio during WFH – under $300 (medium.com)
I started my PhD in 2020, right when the world was discovering what moving entire industries to Work(ing) From Home (WFH) looked like.

Robotics, DIY

5 points by normand 25 days ago | 0 comments

Unitree Robot Off-Road (youtube.com)

Robotics, Technology, Engineering, Videos

62 points by jedixit 25 days ago | 23 comments

Ukraine's All-Robot Assault Force Just Won Its First Battle (forbes.com)
A Ukrainian national guard brigade just orchestrated an all-robot combined-arms operation, mixing crawling and flying drones for an assault on Russian positions in Kharkiv Oblast in northern Ukraine.

Ukraine, Military Technology, Robotics, War, Russia

15 points by pseudolus 26 days ago | 2 comments

Ukraine's First All-Robot Assault Force Just Won Its First Battle (forbes.com)
A Ukrainian national guard brigade just orchestrated an all-robot combined-arms operation, mixing crawling and flying drones for an assault on Russian positions in Kharkiv Oblast in northern Ukraine.

Ukraine, Military Technology, Robotics, War, Russia

5 points by gscott 27 days ago | 2 comments

Humanoid robots being mass produced in China (newsweek.com)
A Chinese technology company announced earlier this week that it has begun the mass production of general-purpose robots.

Robotics, China, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by madihaa 28 days ago | 1 comments

Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it.

Startups, Robotics, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence

40 points by rntn 28 days ago | 6 comments

New physics sim can compress training times from decades into hours (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world.

Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Simulation, Robotics

122 points by elsewhen 29 days ago | 34 comments

Show HN: Interactive graphs in Rerun with a Rust port of D3-force (rerun.io)
Rerun is building the multimodal data stack for robotics and spatial intelligence.

Software, Data Visualization, Rust, Robotics, Spatial Intelligence

65 points by nikonp 29 days ago | 13 comments

Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics (readthedocs.io)

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Software

233 points by tomp 30 days ago | 52 comments

Genesis: A generative and universal physics engine for robotics and beyond (genesis-embodied-ai.github.io)
Genesis is a comprehensive physics simulation platform designed for general purpose Robotics, Embodied AI, & Physical AI applications. It is simultaneously multiple things:

Robotics, Physics, AI, Simulation, Software

83 points by bssrdf 30 days ago | 2 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 30 days ago | 24 comments

Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents (ycombinator.com)

Robotics, Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Y Combinator

165 points by apeytavin 30 days ago | 76 comments

Free Your Vacuum from the Cloud (github.com/Hypfer)
Valetudo is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation.

Robotics, Privacy, Open Source, Software, IoT

19 points by Croftengea 31 days ago | 6 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 31 days ago | 25 comments