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. Show HN: Imrobot – Reverse CAPTCHA that verifies AI agents, not humans (github.com)
   1 points by leo_pechnicki 12 days ago | discuss
2. 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images (www.popsci.com)
   226 points by wslh 22 days ago | 101 comments
3. In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants (techcrunch.com)
   197 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 238 comments
4. Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators (robot-daycare.com)
   170 points by o4c 26 days ago | 37 comments
5. I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot (www.dayworkx.com)
   102 points by skholinn 12 days ago | 41 comments
6. "Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video] (www.youtube.com)
   78 points by surprisetalk 13 days ago | 40 comments
7. Robotocore · a Digital Twin of AWS (github.com)
   59 points by pkaeding 21 days ago | 8 comments
8. Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich? (pbj.deliberateinc.com)
   36 points by mooreds 25 days ago | 40 comments
9. 30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling (spectrum.ieee.org)
   36 points by vinhnx 9 days ago | 15 comments
10. FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen resigns because of Epstein files (www.nhpr.org)
    27 points by benwen 15 days ago | 4 comments
11. The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement (www.defenseone.com)
    24 points by speckx 4 days ago | 5 comments
12. Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models (phail.ai)
    21 points by vertix 7 days ago | 8 comments
13. Show HN: I gave my robot physical memory – it stopped repeating mistakes (github.com)
    18 points by robotmem 29 days ago | 4 comments
14. Every Kid Gets a Robot (www.steamconnection.org)
    15 points by rmason 15 days ago | discuss
15. Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
    13 points by tiredagent 19 days ago | 14 comments
16. China's robotics revolution: I visited 11 companies in 5 Chinese cities (www.theguardian.com)
    12 points by calcifer 19 days ago | discuss
17. The frontline is like Terminator: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war (www.theguardian.com)
    11 points by tanelpoder about 21 hours ago | discuss
18. Trapped Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack (www.nytimes.com)
    10 points by JumpCrisscross 21 days ago | discuss
19. Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Human-Controlled (gizmodo.com)
    9 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 2 comments
20. Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city (www.bbc.co.uk)
    8 points by neversaydie 6 days ago | discuss
21. Show HN: Robotics runtime in the browser (flight controller, WebAssembly) (cdn.copper-robotics.com)
    7 points by gbin 29 days ago | 3 comments
22. Baidu robotaxis halted mid-traffic causing crashes in Wuhan (www.cnbc.com)
    7 points by Betelbuddy 6 days ago | 2 comments
23. ChatGPT Took The Pentagon's Killer Robot Deal: Boycott Now (quitgpt.org)
    6 points by doener 27 days ago | 2 comments
24. Baidu robotaxi outage in Wuhan caused by 'system failure', police say (www.reuters.com)
    6 points by TechTechTech 6 days ago | discuss
25. 30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling (spectrum.ieee.org)
    6 points by MindGods 7 days ago | discuss
26. Melania Trump brings an AI-powered robot to the White House (www.cnn.com)
    6 points by Bender 13 days ago | discuss
27. Snakes' ability to stand upright could inform soft robotics: study (seas.harvard.edu)
    6 points by hhs 18 days ago | discuss
28. 'Pokémon Go' players have been unknowingly training delivery robots (www.popsci.com)
    6 points by jonbaer 23 days ago | discuss
29. Next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots (www.theregister.com)
    5 points by hedora 19 days ago | 2 comments
30. Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles: Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robots and Wearables (www.media.mit.edu)
    5 points by gryfft 10 days ago | 1 comments