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Robotics

Humanoid robots, warehouse automation, and the physical instantiation of AI.

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Humanoid Robots to Become Baggage Handlers in Japan Airport Experiment

The Guardian·Apr 28, 2026·6 min read

Japan Airlines begins humanoid robot trials at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, deploying robots to handle luggage sorting amid a severe labor shortage in the country's aging workforce.

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Apr 19, 2026

Humanoid Robots Race Past Humans in Beijing Half-Marathon

Reuters·5 min read

In a stunning demonstration of robotic athleticism, humanoid robots outpaced human runners at the Beijing half-marathon, breaking a world record for robotic locomotion.

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May 13, 2025

Amazon Tested Warehouse Robots and Found They're Not Ready to Replace Humans

The Register·6 min read

Despite years of investment in warehouse automation, Amazon's internal testing reveals that robots still cannot match human dexterity and adaptability for picking and packing.

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Feb 5, 2026

How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written in Blood

Hackaday·7 min read

The history of industrial robotics safety standards is a sobering reminder that the rules protecting workers today were forged from fatal accidents and hard-won labor battles.

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Apr 21, 2026

In Chinese Data Factories, Workers Teach Humanoid Robots Boring Tasks

Rest of World·8 min read

Inside China's robot training centers, where thousands of workers spend their days teaching humanoid robots the mundane tasks that will eventually replace them.

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May 6, 2026

Ukraine Said It Captured a Russian Position Using Only Ground Robots and Drones

Business Insider·6 min read

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2021-07-18

Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones

DiabloD3·5 min read

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2026-05-14

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

xena·4 min read

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2026-05-04

Humanoid Robot Actuators

ofrzeta·4 min read

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2026-05-16

Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

bookofjoe·6 min read

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2026-05-14

Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

knuaym9·6 min read

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2026-05-14

How Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane and My Long Path to Recovery

James72689·6 min read

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2026-05-15

Drone Mishap with XM183 MiniBlast Redacted

rolph·4 min read

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2026-05-14

Show HN: Browse 61 3D Printable Robots

xanderjanz·5 min read

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2026-05-16

As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back

Stratoscope·6 min read

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2026-05-12

UK to send drones, jets and warship to join defensive mission securing Hormuz

geox·6 min read

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2026-05-15

OpenAI Models in OpenClaw, Done Right

sansuk·4 min read

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2026-04-22

Show HN: Physics-accurate 3D assets for robotics simulations from any input

uguryekta·6 min read

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2026-05-15

Show HN: VisiSign – $0.10 per envelope e-signatures with no monthly fee

rdoneill·6 min read

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2026-05-15

The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle

odysseyk·6 min read

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2026-05-15

Show HN: We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF

frishberg·6 min read

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2026-05-14

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

Bender·8 min read

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2026-05-17

Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

Bender·5 min read

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2026-05-14

You can reverse much of the damage alcohol has done to your body, science says

sleepyguy·6 min read

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2026-05-18

The Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare

uxhacker·5 min read

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2026-05-16

Humanoid robots won't surprise us when they arrive

otoolep·5 min read

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2026-05-15

Sorry, you can't bring your humanoid robots on Southwest flights anymore

Bender·6 min read

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2026-05-14

Encountering the roots of mathematics

hhs·4 min read

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2026-05-15

Latvian government collapses after Ukrainian drones strike oil facility

petethomas·5 min read

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2026-05-13

UAE Building 'Cope Cages' to Protect Energy Facilities from Drone Attack

uticus·6 min read

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2026-05-10

Humanoid Robots Are the Next Phase of the AI Hype Cycle

wslh·6 min read

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2026-05-02

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Brajeshwar·5 min read

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2026-04-21

Show HN: Humanoid.js – One HTML file that scores how human your clicks look

informal007·6 min read

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2026-04-19

Humanoid robots race past humans to set Beijing half-marathon record

chatmasta·5 min read

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2026-05-18

Two Autonomous Humanoid Robots Seamlessly Work Together to Make the Bed

air7·6 min read

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2026-05-16

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

thunderbong·5 min read

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2026-05-14

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges

akyuu·5 min read

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2026-05-17

U.S. eyes attack-drone threat from Cuba

cwwc·4 min read

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2026-05-16

Ukraine's Interceptor Drone Innovations

giuliomagnifico·4 min read

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2026-05-15

Show HN: Raybeam – A better way to screen share on macOS

fisc·6 min read

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2026-05-15

Show HN: Blogr – for developers who never blog consistently

Blogrdev·5 min read

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2026-05-18

Hollywood Invented the Girlboss

robtherobber·4 min read

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2026-05-17

In Japan, we don't see robots as a threat: just a form of presence in the world

pilingual·8 min read

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2026-05-14

A new data layer for robot learning

Tycho87·5 min read

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2026-05-14

The beauty of Human Hands – and how far is Robotics

sankalpmukim·6 min read

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2026-05-18

Russia Claims Ukraine Is Using AI Drones That Lock onto Faces and Heat Signature

jawiggins·6 min read

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2026-05-17

Military Snipers Are Being Put Out of a Job by Drones

Michelangelo11·6 min read

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2026-05-16

Init Hello: A New Apple II Conference (Scope Creep Done Right) – Byte Cellar

rbanffy·6 min read

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2026-05-15

The Earliest Known Dentistry Wasn't Done by Our Species

janandonly·5 min read

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2026-05-13

Slowing Down My Coding Agents to Get More Done

someguy101010·5 min read

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2026-05-04

The Download: the North Pole's future and humanoid data

joozio·5 min read

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2026-04-29

Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage

Brajeshwar·6 min read

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2026-04-26

Humanoid Data

gnabgib·4 min read

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2026-05-18

The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers

robtherobber·6 min read

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2026-05-17

Unmanned lab opens with robots at work as researchers push AI, automation

pseudolus·6 min read

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2026-05-17

Show HN: Built a verifiable, open-source SoC 2 readiness scanner

arjavmehta·5 min read

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2026-05-16

China wants more robots but not fewer workers

marojejian·5 min read

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2026-05-15

SSH-Keysign-Pwn: Reading Root-Owned Files via a Ptrace Logic Bug

mbeavitt·5 min read

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2026-05-15

Hello Robot's Wheeled Home Robot Ditches Humanoid Hype

rbanffy·5 min read

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2026-05-14

Extracting the Root VCEK Seed on EPYC Milan via a Software-Only Attack

Timofeibu·6 min read

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2026-05-17

With Its IPO Done, Cerebras Can Get Back to Pushing the AI Envelope

rbanffy·6 min read

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2026-05-14

Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record–then it crashed

Brajeshwar·6 min read

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2026-05-13

Show HN: Polar Balance – a bipolar mood tracker I built for my wife

natali_gray·6 min read

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2026-05-18

Pope Leo's encyclical on preserving the human person in the AI era drops May 25

dmschulman·6 min read

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2026-05-08

Robe-ot: the Android monk working to reboot the faith of South Korea's Buddhists

mitchbob·6 min read

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2026-05-01

Japan Airlines begins humanoid robot trials at Tokyo's Haneda airport as labor s

bookmtn·6 min read

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2026-04-30

Humanoid Robots Will Work as Baggage Handlers at Tokyo Airport

y1n0·5 min read

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2026-04-28

Japan Airlines trials humanoid robots as ground handlers

breve·5 min read

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2026-04-21

Siemens and Humanoid deployed an Nvidia-powered humanoid robot

JeanKage·5 min read

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2026-04-20

Humanoid robots show rapid advances racing past humans in Beijing half-marathon

KolmogorovComp·6 min read

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2026-04-20

Humanoid robot beats the human half-marathon world record by 6.5 minutes

jrflo·6 min read

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2026-04-19

Humanoid robot beats human world record in half marathon

hochmartinez·5 min read

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2015-05-14

View from the ValleyRoboticsAerial Robots Is Lily a Drone? Or Is It a Camera?

bpolania·6 min read

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2015-05-14

Is Lily a Drone? Or Is It a Camera?

jonbaer·5 min read

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2026-05-18

Zero a Language for Humans and Robots

dcu·5 min read

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2026-05-17

ElliQ is a surprisingly helpful companion robot for older adults

sohkamyung·5 min read

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2026-05-17

High-Powered Mutant Makefiles: Standard Library, Docker Support, and More

ian_j_butler·5 min read

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2026-05-18

Show HN: I'm done. Flow editors are broken. And you all know it

steampixel·6 min read

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2026-05-17

Show HN: WhispHub CLI – push your projects to WhispHub from the terminal

whispem·6 min read

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2026-05-15

Ukrainian drone strike on fuel depot prompts Latvian prime minister resignation

stared·6 min read

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2026-05-14

Solar Impulse 2 Crashes into Gulf

pingou·4 min read

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2026-05-18

Form and Function of Enterprise Humanoid Design

prathje·5 min read

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2026-05-09

From phones to humanoid robots: China's supply chain eyes next growth curve

mooreds·6 min read

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2026-05-02

Robot fighting league has new home in S.F. you can watch – and buy – 'humanoids'

iancmceachern·8 min read

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2026-04-27

Sonic: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control

pantalaimon·5 min read

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2026-04-24

Humanoids are now faster than humans

JoiDegn·4 min read

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2026-04-20

Humanoid Robot Shatters Human Half-Marathon Record to Make History

axelfontaine·5 min read

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2026-04-20

Robot smashes human record in half-marathon – as another self-destructed

omer_k·5 min read

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2026-04-19

FastStair: Learning to Run Up Stairs with Humanoid Robots

amai·5 min read

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2026-04-19

Humanoid robot breaks half marathon world record in Beijing

kasperni·5 min read

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