Robotics stories

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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A Drone 'Hellscape' Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

nytimes.com · 6 points · 2 comments

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

abc.net.au · 76 points · 60 comments

How a Drone 'Hellscape' Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

nytimes.com · 6 points · 2 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

tomshardware.com · 97 points · 123 comments

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

techcrunch.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Rodeo – a robot that earns its own electricity

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport

cnn.com · 39 points · 15 comments

Helios: Decentralized Autonomous Collision Avoidance for Megaconstellations

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Robotic Evals

3 points · 0 comments

Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor

bbc.co.uk · 7 points · 4 comments

Driving an 80s robot with a 90s OS at VCF West 2026

jfloren.net · 4 points · 0 comments

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE's DNA grab

technologyreview.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Nvidia Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Autonomous Vehicles

blogs.nvidia.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach

blog.divyendusingh.com · 18 points · 8 comments

FCC Restricts Imports of New Foreign Power Inverters and Robotic Devices

covingtonblogs.com · 24 points · 1 comments

New spinning drone hides in plain sight

news.northwestern.edu · 19 points · 4 comments

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

linuxiac.com · 10 points · 194 comments

Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt

11 points · 21 comments

Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers

bleepingcomputer.com · 7 points · 1 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

bottlenecklabs.com · 398 points · 233 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

deepmind.google · 620 points · 558 comments

Amazon's Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxis with no human controls

reuters.com · 10 points · 2 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

mnot.net · 130 points · 42 comments

FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums

pcmag.com · 50 points · 22 comments

OpenDerm – Open-source robotic 3D skin imaging

openderm.github.io · 18 points · 1 comments

I gave Fable a robot body

talraviv.co · 3 points · 1 comments

National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]

fcc.gov · 76 points · 73 comments

Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design

transformer-transformer.github.io · 73 points · 8 comments

Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses

theintercept.com · 42 points · 15 comments

Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones as school shooting response

theguardian.com · 6 points · 0 comments