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I'm exploring a service that auto-runs robot physics simulations on cloud GPUs when you push code, think Vercel CI/CD but for Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or MuJoCo. GPU spins up on push, runs headlessly, posts metrics to a hosted results dashboard, tears down. For those of you who've already solved the GPU infra problem: if you had to start over from scratch today with a new job, new team, new project, would you dread what lies ahead? Or was it a one-time annoyance you've forgotten about? Genuinely trying to understand if this is painful enough to pay to avoid or just annoying for a few weeks and then fine.

(I have a landing page but no product yet, posting to validate before building!)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778566

Points: 1

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The Design Landscape of Robot Learning Is a Minefield

kukanani — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://allevato.me/2026/04/15/robot-learning-is-a-minefield

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778369

Points: 1

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Bernt Børnich: Meet NEO, your robot butler in training [video]

fagnerbrack — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/bernt_bornich_meet_neo_your_robot_butler_in_training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775987

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Robotics engineers – how painful was setting up GPU sim infra?

nikhilol — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:15:15 +0000

Genuinely trying to understand if this is painful enough to pay to avoid or just annoying for a few weeks and then fine.

(I have a landing page but no product yet, posting to validate before building!)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775698

Points: 4

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Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine

alephnerd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ukraine-robot-army-war-russia-surrender-jvld9rllc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770181

Points: 31

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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Embodied reasoning for real-world robotics tasks

meetpateltech — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:29:46 +0000

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766946

Points: 6

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Why Robots That Don't Understand Physics Are Winning

lairv — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:30:29 +0000

Article URL: https://yage.ai/share/vla-vs-physics-robotics-en-20260413.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766151

Points: 3

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Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

barratia — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:31:19 +0000

Two weeks ago, I quit my job at a robotics company. I was working with high-end hardware (Boston Dynamics, Unitree), but I found out they were planning to mount teleoperated weapons on the robotic platforms for a demo. I’m not willing to go there, so I resigned without another offer.

I’ve decided this is the right time to go back to entrepreneurship. We're at an incredible moment for embodied intelligence, but I feel the tools and workflows we use to interact, monitor, and control these platforms are still lagging behind.

I'm currently exploring a couple of projects around how we build, test, and interact with robots. As part of my customer discovery phase, I'm trying to gather raw data on how roboticists and developers actually work day to day and what their main pain points are regarding control interfaces.

I put together a very short survey (3 mins) to validate some ideas. If you work in robotics, embedded systems, or just tinker with hardware, your input would be incredibly valuable:

Survey link: https://forms.gle/3Nm76wkeT5CMt23c8

I'm also open to discussing the ethical lines in modern robotics or anything related to ROS2 / HRI in the thread. Thanks for reading!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764215

Points: 115

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