Hacker News with Generative AI: Robotics

AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks Showroom Bots into 'Quitting Their Jobs' (latintimes.com)
A viral video showing an AI-powered robot in China convincing other robots of "quitting their jobs" and following it has sparked fear and fascination about the capabilities of advanced AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Labor, China

12 points by harambae 10 hours ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot (msgtn.xyz)
This post presents updates to Blossom, the robot that I developed in grad school.

Robotics, Open Source, Social Robots

54 points by psychomugs 13 hours ago | 4 comments

Urban Machine: robotics and AI to reclaim lumber for reuse (urbanmachine.build)
Urban Machine pioneers sustainable wood reclamation.

Robotics, AI, Sustainability, Construction

6 points by fanf2 3 days ago | 2 comments

Wolfpack Military Robot in China (youtube.com)

Robotics, Military, China

5 points by FpUser 5 days ago | 0 comments

A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor (crowdsupply.com)
The Signaloid C0-microSD is a tiny programmable FPGA System-on-Module (SoM) that makes it possible to extend your existing industrial automation, manufacturing, and robotics systems with an FPGA-based hardware accelerator.

FPGA, Hardware, Robotics, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing

89 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | 39 comments

Comma.ai Autonomy (comma.ai)
The autonomy team’s goal is to build robotic agents. Agents that are open-source, useful, and that you can fully own. Our main product and current focus is building the world’s best ADAS system. But the methods and strategies we are using to solve these problems are generic, they are not specific to driving.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics

7 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | 2 comments

Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Watches Its Step [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Video, AI

24 points by PotatoNinja 7 days ago | 3 comments

Benchmarking Vision, Language, and Action Models on Robotic Learning Tasks (multinet.ai)
Vision-language-action (VLA) models represent a promising direction for developing general-purpose robotic systems, demonstrating the ability to combine visual understanding, language comprehension, and action generation.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

11 points by hsikka 8 days ago | 0 comments

DEEPRobotics Lynx All-Terrian Robot – Extreme Off-Road [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, Engineering, Off-Road, Vehicles, Video

3 points by doppp 8 days ago | 0 comments

$250 open source robot with most advanced AI models inside (twitter.com)

Robotics, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by amrrs 9 days ago | 1 comments

Where's My Robot? (ieee.org)
Here’s how we could finally build humanoid robots that do all our domestic chores

Robotics, Domestic Automation

11 points by sohkamyung 9 days ago | 0 comments

Trump beefs up security with robot dog seen patrolling Mar-a-Lago estate (nypost.com)
Donald Trump has beefed up his security detail at Mar-a-Lago with a Secret Service robot dog — with photos showing the four-legged sentry patrolling the sprawling Florida property.

Security, Robotics, Donald Trump, Florida

4 points by sandwichsphinx 9 days ago | 1 comments

Amazon: Drivers to wear AR glasses to improve efficiency until robots take over (engadget.com)
Amazon is reportedly developing smart glasses for its delivery drivers, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.

Amazon, Delivery, Augmented Reality, Robotics

6 points by mikece 10 days ago | 2 comments

Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry (physicalintelligence.company)
We are living through an AI revolution: the past decade witnessed practically useful AI assistants, AI systems that can generate photorealistic images and videos, and even models that can predict the structure of proteins. But in spite of all these advances, human intelligence dramatically outpaces AI when it comes to the physical world.

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Technology, Laundry

218 points by Terretta 11 days ago | 189 comments

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers (theregister.com)
Robots are devaluing and derailing workers' careers in both manufacturing and other jobs tied to regional economics, according to a recent study.

Robotics, Employment, Economics

9 points by croes 11 days ago | 0 comments

Bosch FGS4000 3D Demo (1984) (youtube.com)

Robotics, Technology, History, Vintage Technology

5 points by remoquete 12 days ago | 0 comments

Atleast 1 Human Will Be Killed Deliberately by an Autonomous Robot Within 10 Yrs (2-5-10.com)
Russia - Ukraine war is the first war that is truly defined by the new dynamic of cheap robots being a reality. Drones are now ubiquitous and lethal.

Robotics, War, AI, Technology

19 points by BIackSwan 12 days ago | 21 comments

Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1M (nytimes.com)
A portrait of the British mathematician Alan Turing sold at auction for nearly $1.1 million on Thursday, a surprisingly large sum for a painting whose creator wasn’t an artist in the traditional sense, but rather a humanoid robot powered by artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, Art, Robotics, Auctions

17 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 12 days ago | 6 comments

Peng quadrotor autonomy framework visualized in the browser (rerun.io)
Rerun is not yet supported on mobile browsers.

Robotics, Computer Vision, Web Development, Visualization

32 points by Tycho87 14 days ago | 2 comments

iRobot lays off another 105 employees (techcrunch.com)
Roomba maker iRobot is laying off 105 employees — about 16% of the company’s workforce, per an SEC filing — saying the cuts are part of an “operational restructuring plan.”

Layoffs, Robotics, Business, Consumer Technology

6 points by mfiguiere 14 days ago | 0 comments

Boston Dynamics: Trick or treat, Atlas [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Video, Halloween

4 points by sandwichsphinx 18 days ago | 0 comments

Building a real pawn that transforms into a queen, automatically [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, 3D Printing, Chess, DIY Projects, Video

7 points by fortran77 19 days ago | 1 comments

Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner (2019) (willem.com)
Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my apartment.

Robotics, Home Appliances, Personal Experiences

44 points by willemlaurentz 20 days ago | 24 comments

Our First Generalist Policy (physicalintelligence.company)
We are living through an AI revolution: the past decade witnessed practically useful AI assistants, AI systems that can generate photorealistic images and videos, and even models that can predict the structure of proteins. But in spite of all these advances, human intelligence dramatically outpaces AI when it comes to the physical world.

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Physical Intelligence

308 points by lachyg 20 days ago | 240 comments

Open-source wheeled biped robot (github.com/upkie)
Upkie is a fully open source self-balancing wheeled biped robot. It has wheels for balancing and legs to negotiate uneven terrains. Upkies are designed to be buildable at home using only tools and components ordered online, like mjbots actuators. You can develop in Python or C++, on Linux or macOS, then deploy your software to the robot's Raspberry Pi.

Robotics, Open Source, DIY, Software Development

28 points by surmoi 21 days ago | 9 comments

Teaching Robots to Tackle Household Chores (nvidia.com)
Robotics could make everyday life easier by taking on repetitive or time-consuming tasks. At NVIDIA GTC 2024, researchers from Stanford University unveiled BEHAVIOR-1K, a major benchmark designed to train robots to perform 1,000 real-world-inspired activities—such as folding laundry, cooking breakfast, and cleaning up after a party.

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Household Chores

8 points by sandwichsphinx 21 days ago | 0 comments

Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video] (youtube.com)

Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Videos

233 points by PotatoNinja 22 days ago | 215 comments

Hobby CAD, CNC machining, and resin casting (2015) (coredump.cx)
I'm a computer geek by day, and an occasional hobbyist robot builder by night. For most, the craft of robotics requires either deep pockets, or a combination of outstanding manual skills and easy access to a top-notch machine shop. Because of this, many urban-dwelling enthusiasts tend to give up, resort to expensive and limiting premade kits, or fall back to junkyard-quality engineering.

Robotics, Hobbyist Projects, 3D Printing, DIY, Engineering

178 points by hughgrunt 22 days ago | 106 comments

Robot Dog and Leafblower = Labor-Free Yardwork (core77.com)
Redditor Enginerdz came up with a creative use for one of his robot dogs (he has four): Yardwork.

Robotics, DIY, Pets, Technology

23 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Basis – a production focused robotics framework (github.com/basis-robotics)
Basis is a production-focused robotics development framework by Basis Robotics, built on a pub-sub architecture designed for deterministic testing.

Robotics, Open Source, Software, Framework, Software Engineering

82 points by a_t48 23 days ago | 34 comments