Hackernews posts about iRobot

iRobot is a leading American robotics company that designs and manufactures autonomous home cleaning robots, best known for its Roomba vacuuming robot series.

1. Non-humanoid home robot suggestion
   2 points by linton_de 19 days ago | discuss
2. Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself (makerspet.com)
   477 points by devicelimit 5 days ago | 98 comments
3. A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? (openrouter.ai)
   272 points by Usu 19 days ago | 210 comments
4. South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (arstechnica.com)
   260 points by jnord 7 days ago | 210 comments
5. Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries (www.weaverobotics.com)
   233 points by ryanmerket 5 days ago | 381 comments
6. Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence (qwen.ai)
   213 points by ilreb 21 days ago | 42 comments
7. Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk (dfdxlabs.com)
   178 points by mplappert 18 days ago | 60 comments
8. 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (www.bbc.com)
   82 points by higginsniggins 16 days ago | 95 comments
9. Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk (newatlas.com)
   80 points by breve 30 days ago | 34 comments
10. Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea (blogs.nvidia.com)
    59 points by spwa4 29 days ago | 86 comments
11. The first game engine for robotics (luckyrobots.com)
    36 points by arnejenssen 25 days ago | 22 comments
12. Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch (rerun.io)
    34 points by Tycho87 16 days ago | 1 comments
13. NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (www.bbc.com)
    27 points by msadowski about 15 hours ago | 9 comments
14. Liquid AI releases a 230M model optimized for phones, Raspberry Pi, and robots (www.liquid.ai)
    20 points by mpfect 6 days ago | 1 comments
15. Tesla Robotaxi Launches in Miami (twitter.com)
    19 points by spikels 3 days ago | discuss
16. Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks (macrodata.co)
    14 points by tomaspduarte 7 days ago | 2 comments
17. Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go (www.owlposting.com)
    13 points by abhishaike 3 days ago | 3 comments
18. Waymo recalls ~3,900 robotaxis, some drove into 'freeway construction zones' (www.cnbc.com)
    10 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 days ago | 3 comments
19. Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war (www.newscientist.com)
    10 points by janandonly 27 days ago | 3 comments
20. Get-a-Waymo: How a burglar used a robotaxi to flee the scene (www.sfchronicle.com)
    9 points by breve 29 days ago | 5 comments
21. The Excavator That Digs to a Line It Cannot See – Mobility and Field Robotics (atomsfrontier.substack.com)
    9 points by jpatel3 10 days ago | 2 comments
22. China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands (www.theguardian.com)
    8 points by sandebert about 18 hours ago | discuss
23. The Robotics Experiment Loop (rerun.io)
    8 points by Tycho87 13 days ago | discuss
24. NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth (www.bbc.co.uk)
    7 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 3 comments
25. DoorDash robot refuses to leave SWAT operation in Arizona (www.the-independent.com)
    7 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 3 comments
26. Ancient Greek Technology: The Origins of Robotics and Engineering (kotsanas.com)
    7 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 1 comments
27. Humanoid Robot Begs for Electricity Money on China Streets with QR Code (yipzap.com)
    7 points by noida 14 days ago | discuss
28. Robotics Has a Stiffness Problem (hasalmon.medium.com)
    7 points by E- 29 days ago | discuss
29. China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
    6 points by DEDLINE 28 days ago | 1 comments
30. People want robots in warehouses and factories not hospitals or schools (hexagon.com)
    6 points by JeanKage 20 days ago | discuss