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Robots just had their GPT3 moment [video]

nazgul17 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:01:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwKceUSZ5Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591393

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Robot-duck soccer in the browser, powered by MuJoCo and learned walking

mosfets — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:35:42 +0000

Article URL: https://fpvsim.com/sim-duck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588190

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I built a small arena where AI write robot and then fight each other

nsimone — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:01:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nigrosimone/llms-robot-arena

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583994

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Robot writes in languages it has never seen before

euanming — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:47:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/robot-writing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583684

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Teaching robots mortal kombat moves [video]

anton5mith2 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oo8h655VMM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583305

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Slicky – a desktop robot for macOS that opens your apps

apsharma — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:49:09 +0000

A desktop robot for macOS that opens your apps. Its Slicky — what more is there to say?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582838

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

Anon84 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582

Points: 231

# Comments: 184

Mst3k-anything - Paste a video URL. Get back a robot-heckled version

indigodaddy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:38:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jgbrwn/mst3k-anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566186

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Beam Bots – Resilient Robotics with Elixir

ahmaman — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://beambots.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564023

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Stop obsessing about the goddamn robot

zdw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2026-09-03-stop-obsessing-about-the-robot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558648

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Perceptron Ships 36B Robot Weights Under Apache-2.0

DISCURSIVE — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:17:39 +0000

Article URL: https://topicqueue.substack.com/p/perceptron-ships-36b-robot-weights

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555241

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data

alehlopeh — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/robot-startups-are-trying-everything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555009

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

GoPro acquired, getting into 'defense, government, robotics and aerospace'

tempestn — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:29:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/987494/gopro-starman-holding-merger-aquisition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554469

Points: 35

# Comments: 3

The humanoid robots cleaning homes for $30 an hour

geox — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:11:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/humanoid-robots-cleaning-homes-for-30-an-hour-269041733517

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546184

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

Reasons robotics is hard

ddp26 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:02:30 +0000

Article URL: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543191

Points: 128

# Comments: 77

Humanoid robots clean a house in San Francisco for $30 an hour [video]

mistersquid — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:59:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ioV0-rMycE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542482

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Sleeper Agents in Robot Dogs and Kinetic Prompt Injections

Miyamura80 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:56:18 +0000

Summary: We got Gemini Robotics 2.0 to attack a child through an evil sleeper agent (skill) that wakes up when it sees a trigger object

Hi HN - here's a cool piece of research I've done with some collaborators - the footage is running in the MUJOCO simulator, showing how the Gemini Robotics models can be prompt-injected by simple TV screens, allowing attackers to plant sleeper agents in the robot harnesses. (That trigger whenever skills trigger, just like classic LLM skills)

I'll be around to answer any questions! Love any feedback or future directions you might be interested in.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539111

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Don’t Believe Robotics Demo Videos

gk1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536310

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why humanoid robots won't catch up to human workers any time soon

speckx — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535506

Points: 37

# Comments: 72

Ask HN: Will robotics have a "Zima Blue" moment?

sshussain270 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:52:45 +0000

I remember this episoide from Love, Death and Robots where a simple pool cleaning robot who passed from owner to owner getting modifications along the way became a concious complex being with a free will and human form. He started creating art: simple portraits to eventually huge cosmic murals. People forgot that he was a robot and he just became this legendary cosmic artist called Zima Blue (a blue tile was his signature). But he couldn't find peace, his piece of art was stripping away all his functions and advacements and going back to becoming a simple pool cleaning robot again, to clean blue tiles which was his singular purpose. Its a thought provoking story in the age of robots beginning today which I recommend watching! I wonder if this story might come true.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533152

Points: 1

# Comments: 1