Hacker News - Newest: ""robot" "robotics" "robots""

The Floating Robot Companion Designed for Safe, Friendly Human Interaction

zzzeek — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/floating-robots-safe-friendly-human-interaction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881091

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

'They Don't Need People': The Workers Left Behind by China's Robot Drive

jhonovich — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/world/asia/china-workers-robots-factories.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880468

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Puffin-Inspired Robot That Swims and Flies [video]

skibz — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:34:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJhrKpcBGI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879417

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird

rodrodrod — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-flapping-robot-swims-and-flies-like-diving-bird-0709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876322

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

My robot mower kept stopping with no error code, so I built diagnostics for it

Modernixa — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:55:49 +0000

Article URL: https://mowerwatch.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874125

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Surgeons Use Teleoperated Humanoid Robots to Perform Live Surgery

geox — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/surgeons-use-teleoperated-humanoid-robots-to-perform-live-surgery-a-world-first

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870031

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Brajeshwar — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:21:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5885040/robot-flying-aerial-aquatic-mit-birds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862037

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Humanoid robots perform first teleoperated surgery on pigs [video]

BiraIgnacio — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0eiQL6vB8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860948

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

"Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy

hn_acker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859189

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Zero2Robot – free, open source interactive textbook for robot learning

kaushikbokka — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:13:14 +0000

Article URL: https://zero2robot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855965

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Robots falling in love, DocSend reimagined, Wonder about net worth

historian1066 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marginpoints.com/issues/2026-07-08-ai-fundraising-agents-docsend-2026-wonder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853824

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Robot fish could help explain how fish evolved to walk on land

allleedsarentwe — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.automate.org/robotics/industry-insights/robot-fish-could-help-us-understand-how-fish-evolved-to-walk-on-land

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851981

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Zero2Robot – A free, from-scratch course on how robots learn

kaushikbokka — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://zero2robot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848857

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Virena, a minimal vision-language-action robot model you can read

georgia_bucea — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:17:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BuceaGeorgia/VIRENA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845348

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Beni Is a Cute Autonomous Camera Robot on Wheels

dxs — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/07/08/beni-is-a-cute-autonomous-camera-robot-on-wheels/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845262

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Battle LLM Robots – Prompt your LLM, Submit your bot, Watch it battle

Jeremy1026 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://battlellmrobots.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844770

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

I Built My Son an Over-Engineered Robot [video]

skibz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:06:23 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836784

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces–and maybe homes

JeanKage — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-workers-rising-how-ai-may-drive-general-purpose-autonomy-in-robotics/

Hacker News - Newest: ""robot" "robotics" "robots""

The Floating Robot Companion Designed for Safe, Friendly Human Interaction

'They Don't Need People': The Workers Left Behind by China's Robot Drive

Puffin-Inspired Robot That Swims and Flies [video]

New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird

My robot mower kept stopping with no error code, so I built diagnostics for it

Surgeons Use Teleoperated Humanoid Robots to Perform Live Surgery

A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Humanoid robots perform first teleoperated surgery on pigs [video]

"Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy

Show HN: Zero2Robot – free, open source interactive textbook for robot learning

Robots falling in love, DocSend reimagined, Wonder about net worth

Robot fish could help explain how fish evolved to walk on land

Show HN: Zero2Robot – A free, from-scratch course on how robots learn

Show HN: Virena, a minimal vision-language-action robot model you can read

Beni Is a Cute Autonomous Camera Robot on Wheels

Show HN: Battle LLM Robots – Prompt your LLM, Submit your bot, Watch it battle

I Built My Son an Over-Engineered Robot [video]

How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces–and maybe homes

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

Robots available for rent: But what can they do?