Hacker News with Generative AI: Robots

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)
Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked.

Startups, Robots, Consumer Technology, Children

7 points by isaacfrond 38 days ago | 0 comments

Murderbot, she wrote (wired.com)
Murder is in the air. Everywhere I turn, I see images of a robot killing machine. Then I remind myself where I actually am: in a library lecture room on a college campus in East Texas. The air is a little musty with the smell of old books, and a middle-aged woman with wavy gray-brown hair bows her head as she takes the podium.

Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Robots

243 points by lastdong 52 days ago | 180 comments

Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings (mlive.com)

Robots, Safety, Drowning Prevention, Lake Michigan

99 points by rmason 207 days ago | 118 comments