Hacker News with Generative AI: Robotics

Humanoid Robots in Kickboxing Competition (bbc.co.uk)
Two humanoid robots traded punches while fans watched on, in a competition held in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday.
Robotics, Sports, China, Technology
14 points by limbicsystem 10 days ago | 2 comments
I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit (nautil.us)
A TikTok experiment led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care
Pets, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics
4 points by dnetesn 14 days ago | 1 comments
Buying a Robot Cat and Falling into the Weird World of Animal-Robot Research (mitpress.mit.edu)
What began as a TikTok experiment with my rabbit led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care.
Robotics, Animal Welfare, Research, Technology, Entertainment
34 points by EA-3167 15 days ago | 7 comments
New multi-sensor navigation system for GNSS-denied environments (gpsworld.com)
Advanced Navigation has shared real-world testing results of its LVS Hybrid navigation system. The system is designed for long-endurance operations in environments where GNSS signals are unavailable or unreliable. This system integrates a fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS) with a Laser Velocity Sensor (LVS), creating a software-fused, inertial-centered architecture.
Navigation, GNSS, Sensors, Robotics, Aerospace
5 points by sorenjan 15 days ago | 0 comments
K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers (kscale.dev)
We're accelerating the timeline to a world with billions of robots, and making sure they're accessible, auditable, and beneficial to humanity.
Robotics, Open Source, Developer Tools
142 points by rbanffy 19 days ago | 61 comments
Show HN: Train and deploy your own open-source humanoid in Python (github.com/kscalelabs)
Train and deploy your own humanoid robot controller in 700 lines of Python
Robotics, Open Source, Python, Machine Learning
30 points by codekansas 20 days ago | 6 comments
Giant Robotic Bugs Are Headed to Farms (ieee.org)
Ground Control Robotics’ giant centipede robot is designed for data collecting and weeding on challenging farm terrain.
Robotics, Agriculture, Technology
5 points by Brajeshwar 21 days ago | 0 comments
Voyager 1's Primary Thrusters Revived Before DSN Command Pause (hackaday.com)
As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber diaphragm in the fuel tank has been depositing on the inside of fuel tubes. By switching between primary, backup and trajectory thrusters the Voyager team has been managing this issue and kept the spacecraft oriented towards Earth.
Space Exploration, Engineering, Robotics, Spacecraft
4 points by droideqa 21 days ago | 0 comments
Tesla has yet to start testing Austin robotaxi service weeks before launch (electrek.co)
Tesla has reportedly yet to start testing its robotaxi service in Austin without a safety driver behind the wheel – just weeks before the planned launch.
Tesla, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Texas, Technology
3 points by coloneltcb 23 days ago | 1 comments
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant (theregister.com)
Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.
Space Exploration, Robotics, Failures
5 points by rntn 23 days ago | 0 comments
IM-2's Imperfect Landing Due to Altimeter Interference (spacepolicyonline.com)
Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander, IM-2, landed on its side near the Moon’s South Pole because of altimeter interference and lighting conditions according to the company’s president and CEO.
Space Exploration, Robotics, Lunar Missions
15 points by verzali 24 days ago | 4 comments
Robot chefs take over at South Korea's highway restaurants, to mixed reviews (restofworld.org)
Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants.Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation.Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.
Robotics, South Korea, Labor, Food Service, Technology
35 points by NDAjam 24 days ago | 15 comments
Tesla Optimus Dancing (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Tesla, Robotics, Humor
12 points by redox99 24 days ago | 0 comments
Dutch ingenuity: A brainless soft robot running on air (arstechnica.com)
Most robots rely on complex control systems, AI-powered or otherwise, that govern their movement. These centralized electronic brains need time to react to changes in their environment and produce movements that are often awkwardly, well, robotic.
Robotics, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software
18 points by davoneus 25 days ago | 3 comments
Pope concerned of "artificial intelligence, robotics, human relationships" (detroitcatholic.com)
ROME (OSV News) -- Chilean Cardinal Fernando Chomalí described the conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV as a profoundly spiritual and joyful experience, rooted in prayer and unity.
Pope, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Religion, Human Relationships
7 points by Apocryphon 28 days ago | 3 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, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Machine Learning
11 points by mikhael 29 days ago | 3 comments
Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans (ieee.org)
Amazon, Robotics, Automation, Warehousing, Efficiency
209 points by Luc 29 days ago | 283 comments
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 29 days 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 30 days ago | 0 comments
Creating Furniture-Scale Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machines (drive.google.com)
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Robotics, 3D Printing, Furniture Design, Computer-Aided Manufacturing
4 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 0 comments
Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown (phys.org)
A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.
Space Exploration, Japan, Lunar Landers, Robotics
212 points by pseudolus 31 days ago | 66 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 31 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 32 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
51 points by rmason 32 days ago | 40 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 33 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
35 points by gnabgib 33 days ago | 8 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-_- 33 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
46 points by tomrod 34 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 35 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
121 points by surprisetalk 37 days ago | 24 comments