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Robotics combines hardware, software, and AI in physical systems. This page tracks humanoid robots, industrial automation, drone developments, and the research pushing embodied intelligence forward.

HN discussions often focus on feasibility, cost curves, and the gap between demos and production deployments.

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Redthread – autonomous LLM pentesting with proof-of-concept exploits

millenniums.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

Flux 3 Action: A 7B open-weight world action model for robots

huggingface.co · 9 points · 0 comments

The City – a native Mac app that shows Claude Code as a city of robots

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups

madrobot.blog · 5 points · 6 comments

HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own

tml.stanford.edu · 5 points · 4 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

generalroboticslab.com · 10 points · 11 comments

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 8 comments

Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents

arxiv.org · 2 points · 0 comments

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

arstechnica.com · 13 points · 29 comments

CIA warns Russia preparing attacks on Spain, France, Italy with drones from sea

independent.co.uk · 3 points · 0 comments

Can the US Build a DJI? A Teardown of Two DJI Drones

arenaphysica.com · 3 points · 14 comments

InstinctFlash – High-Performance Serving Runtime for Robotics Models

github.com · 23 points · 4 comments

Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents

eff.org · 85 points · 17 comments

It's Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb

nytimes.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

robertmay.photography · 8 points · 16 comments

Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016)

robot-daycare.com · 4 points · 6 comments

Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

robocurve.org · 35 points · 23 comments

First Autonomous Flight Across the United States

jobyaviation.com · 6 points · 2 comments

Ran Qwen 3.8 27B autonomously(ish) for 3 weeks on single 3090

huggingface.co · 2 points · 0 comments

Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets

tomshardware.com · 29 points · 8 comments

Copper-Rs: Live Telemetry Deterministic Twins for Robots

copper-robotics.com · 9 points · 1 comments

I am vibe coding a drone

ai-eng-design-production.up.railway.app · 6 points · 3 comments

Valve has open-sourced Lepton, its tool to bring Android games to Steam

theverge.com · 32 points · 3 comments

Figure AI - Helix 2.5 Robot: Zero-Shot Home Generalization

figure.ai · 14 points · 0 comments

Robots are asking for tips. But who gets the money?

bbc.com · 8 points · 3 comments

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

github.com · 41 points · 6 comments

Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?

2 points · 16 comments

China's Ubtech Opens Plant Making a Humanoid Robot Every 10 Minutes

en.sedaily.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Photos show damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

cbsnews.com · 5 points · 0 comments

'Attacks will be fully autonomous': Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare

aljazeera.com · 4 points · 0 comments