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news.ycombinator.com• Jan 13, 2026• 1 min read

Yarbo Unveils New Modular Yard Robots at CES 2026 for Everyday HomesDuring CES 2026, Yarbo presented the latest expansion of its modular yard robot ecosystem with the public debut of the Yarbo M Series. The company introduced its development roadmap and long-term vision for modular, intelligent yard robotics, marking a shift from a premium solution for large properties to a scalable, AI-powered ecosystem designed for everyday households.Designed for Everyday HomesThe launch of the Yarbo M Series represents a strategic expansion of Yarbo’s product portfolio. While the original 2025 Yarbo version was designed as a solution for large yards and high-intensity use, the M Series introduces a compact, modular, all-season system tailored for typical residential homes. Positioned above traditional robotic mowers, the M Series helps define an emerging category: the modular yard robot system.Yarbo’s M Series continues its commitment to a modular system, featuring one intelligent core and multiple interchangeable modules for year-round functionality. At its core,

news.ycombinator.com• Dec 16, 2025• 1 min read

Ask HN: What does it take to get hired into applied research without a PhD?I’m a mid/senior software engineer (~7 YOE) trying to move into applied research in AI/robotics. No PhDIf you’ve hired for research engineer / applied scientist / robotics roles:What differentiates a strong non-PhD candidate from "Smart SWE who likes ML"?Which artifacts are most convincing (reproducing papers, open source contributions, working on real-world systems, conference workshop paper, etc.)?What skill gaps usually show up in interviews?And if you’ve made the jump, what worked for you?

bing.com• Nov 18, 2025• 1 min read

Nanorobots based on reconfigurable DNA origami arrays can work autonomouslyOver the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

github.com• Nov 5, 2025• 1 min read

Show HN: I was tired of ROS2, so I rewrote it in RustEvery once in a while, I hear developers complain about how working with ROS2 frustrates them, or students who find the barriers to understanding ROS2 too high. Undoubtedly, ROS2 was originally designed in the lab for the prototyping phase.However, being widely adopted has turned its design into a messy blob that is not only "thick" - and not in a good way - but also too tangled. Therefore, I came up with the design for HORUS -Hybrid Optimized Robotics Unified System.At first, I was just experimenting to see whether building a system that respects both the versions and dependencies of low-level packages like drivers, and high-level packages like ML/robotics algorithms would be that hard - unlike in ROS2. Surprisingly, with current modern technology, we can do a lot to make this vision come true. ROS2 users are always looking to avoid "reinventing the wheel" by trying to pick whatever exists in that tangled web and sticking it into their project. This workflow was good, at least in the

news.ycombinator.com• Nov 4, 2025• 1 min read

Why I'm Flying to Work with Remote Engineers (vs. Finding Bay Area Cofounder)Three months ago, I started searching for a cofounder for my robotics startup in California. The ideal candidate profile was clear: 10x engineer, top-tier school credentials (helpful for fundraising pre-traction), located in the SF Bay Area.After three months of searching—including creative outreach that generated half a dozen face-to-face interviews—I found exactly zero cofounders. The Expiration DateHere’s the thing about cofounder searches: they have an expiration date. At some point, the business needs to move to its next phase, with or without the perfect cofounder. I hit that point two weeks ago during a manufacturing trip to China.While there, I did some math. The cost of flying to China and staying for two weeks was two orders of magnitude less than paying a single month’s SF Bay Area salary for an engineer ($2K/month vs $160/year + $2K/month benefits + $25K capital rais bonus + equity).That’s when I realized I was optimizing for the wrong constraint.Splitting the “Ideal” Cofou

news.ycombinator.com• May 29, 2025• 1 min read

I am concerned about the future. Are you?My children are in college pursuing STEM degrees (CS and Robotics), with one also pursuing an art double major (animation).While we are in the US, we also have family in Europe and Latin America.So, what's the concern? Well, there are two that I think should be obvious.The first is how AI will alter the landscape. It is easy to see that companies might be able to develop products with somewhere between 1/5 to 1/10 the engineers in the not-too-distant future. Let's define that as the time required for a fresh high school graduate to finish a Masters degree.How can you possibly advise and guide a young person given the huge variability of potential outcomes 6 to 10 years out?The second is the massive deindustrialization of the West (again, this isn't US-centric as Europe, Latin America and others are deeply affected) as China solidifies into a dominant position in manufacturing just-about everything.What do the US, Europe and Latin America become when they don't make anything (in relativ

youtube.com• May 17, 2025• 1 min read

Show HN: Low-backlash Angular gearbox and 3D-printed wrist differential [video]I recently spent several months designing and prototyping a low-backlash angular gear drive. The goal was to create a compact transmission for robotic wrists that avoids bevel gears and belts — while still transmitting torque smoothly at various angles.The design was inspired by roller pinion linear systems, but adapted for angular motion. Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/11/5620To be honest, I couldn’t figure out the tooth profile for the straight pinion variant, so I brute-forced it — by writing a script that rotates two bodies at a set gear ratio and performs boolean cuts between them.I 3D-printed several prototypes, including a working wrist differential with embedded reducers and a double hollow shaft drive.Here's a video about it: https://youtu.be/VXcuryyRGboWould love to get feedback — especially from those working in robotics or mechanical design.

bing.com• Apr 29, 2025• 1 min read

Figure AI sent cease-and-desist letters to secondary markets brokersLast month, Brett Adcock, founder of robotics startup Figure AI, claimed in a post on X that his company "is now # 1 most sought-after private stock in the secondary market." But the company has sent ...

news.ycombinator.com• Feb 14, 2025• 1 min read

Magamac: Modular Automated Games and Manufacturing AI CivilizationMAGAMAC: The Civilization That Builds ItselfAI isn’t just changing industries. It’s changing civilization itself.Imagine a city where factories run with zero human labor. Where supply chains are entirely self-optimizing. Where production, logistics, and even the economy itself function like a real-life open-world game—a system where every participant plays a role in advancing automation, innovation, and wealth creation.That’s MAGAMAC—a self-building civilization structured like a modular factory, an economic simulation, and a startup accelerator all at once.Factories That Automate ThemselvesThe model is simple:We create 5,040 modular production zones—each designed to automate itself out of human dependence. AI, robotics, and autonomous systems run every sector, from manufacturing to logistics to software. Instead of jobs, we build an interactive economy—a game-layered civilization where people explore, innovate, and optimize new industries instead of grinding for survival. Each MAGAMAC

github.com• Oct 19, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: Open-Source Zero-Shot Image Model Server Enabling Model FeedbackHi everyone!Here is an open source implementation of a decently performant server hosting zero-shot image models (CLIP for image classification, OWL-ViT-ST for object detection), with an extra algorithm to allow users to give the models feedback when they make mistakes! We built a company off this flavor of tech two years ago and have clients who are currently using our commercial API. We are now moving on to other projects but want to make sure our clients still have access to the approaches that they've grown to rely on, so we're open sourcing a simple implementation that they'll be able to use after we've shut down our hosted API!I used to work at a robotics startup. After a while it seemed clear that the biggest limiting factor in our ability to ship new models wasn't innovation on model architecture, it was access to relevant, high-quality training data. Around that time CLIP was released, which got me thinking about the idea of having models with world-knowledge baked in so as to

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 26, 2024• 1 min read

Ask HN: Seeking Advice on Choosing the Right Stream for My SonHello everyone, I’m reaching out for some guidance regarding my son, who is currently in 10th grade and at a crossroads in deciding between the science or commerce stream. His assessments indicate that he has strong reasoning skills, is inquisitive, and has an enterprising spirit. He excels in physics and is above average in math, although he’s not interested in biology despite his aptitude for it. He’s curious by nature, enjoys challenges, and loves building with Legos.As an electronics engineer, I naturally lean towards encouraging him to pursue a career in engineering, particularly in fields like computer science, electronics, robotics, or AI. However, I’m aware that I might be biased in this regard. My son, on the other hand, is considering a career in accounting, drawn by the perception of it being a well-paid job with what he believes to be less effort compared to engineering. He feels that the math involved in accounting is simpler than that in engineering.I’m uncertain about th

en.wikipedia.org• Jan 12, 2024• 1 min read

Show HN: 4D-Realtime Control SystemThought this was an interesting framework for those interested in cognitive systems and multi-agent robotics.

news.ycombinator.com• Oct 20, 2023• 1 min read

Full-Time Job SeekerLocation: Jersey City, NJ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux sysadmin, Machine Learning Algorithms, OpenCV, Sci-kit Learn, Pandas, Numpy, Convolution NN, Neural Networks Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMgHxYOQZDflTRxUiIyP9aX3dkgGIQz2/view?usp=sharing Email: kundan.nanda@outlook.comAs a graduate student majoring in Robotics at the esteemed University at Buffalo, SUNY, I am eager to secure a full-time / Internship role as an AI / Machine Learning Engineer. Throughout my master's degree program, I developed a profound passion for working as an AI / Machine Learning Engineer. My academic journey has equipped me with a diverse skill set, encompassing various pertinent subjects, such as Programming for Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision.Additionally, during my undergraduate studies, I gained proficiency in programming languages like Python, C and C++, further enhancing my technical capabiliti

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 10, 2023• 1 min read

Looks like chat GPT can't even follow simple promptsI asked it to tell me 10 things about tech sector news today and it gave me a bunch of old news shown below:Today, Apple announced its new line of MacBook Pro laptops featuring the company's new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, which promise significant performance improvements.Google unveiled a new set of privacy-focused features for its Chrome web browser, including a "Privacy Dashboard" that provides users with more control over their online data.Facebook is launching a new feature called "Bulletin," which will allow writers and journalists to create and distribute their own newsletters.Tesla announced that it has acquired a robotics company called "Grohmann Engineering," which will help the electric car maker further automate its production lines.Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire MGM Studios, a move that would give the e-commerce giant access to a vast library of movies and TV shows for its Prime Video streaming service.IBM has announced plans to spin off its managed infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 25, 2022• 1 min read

Launch HN: Artemis (YC S22) – Use comments to give code an interactive interfaceHello Hacker News, we’re Austin, Manvir, and Kyle, the cofounders of Artemis Labs (https://artemisdevtool.com). We turn your in-line comments into a UI that can be used to visualize, test, document and share your code. This helps engineers and scientists quickly create quality scripts.Artemis was born in a Caltech robotics lab where I saw firsthand how much time and effort it took to create a quality script. Engineers were spending hundreds of hours making slide decks, hybrid Markdown / LaTeX documents, and demo GUIs just to make their tools accessible and usable by others. As someone who has been on the learning end of things, it can be nearly impossible to decipher or use even the smallest scripts if they lack quality documentation and interactive interfaces. Although these methods worked they were an incredible time sink and documentation became stale quickly.Artemis was devised as a solution to this problem. We wanted a tool that allows developers to create high-quality interfaces

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 15, 2021• 1 min read

Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast foodHi folks, Alex here – I’m the CEO and one of the cofounders at Mezli (https://www.mezli.com/). (I’ve also been a Hacker News lurker since high school and always hoped I’d be posting a Launch HN one day!) We make “auto-kitchens”, fully autonomous restaurants in a shipping container form factor. They serve our menu of Mediterranean grain bowls for pickup and delivery, at a low price point enabled by our approach’s low costs.The three of us met as grad students at Stanford where we were all working on different things – I was doing AI research before dropping out of my PhD, Alex G was in a robotics lab (and just finished his PhD!), and Max was in aero/astro. We worked on a variety of classes, research, and side projects together, but we wanted to start a company and none of our ideas were looking particularly commercially viable. Then, as I was winding down a project building an autonomous weeding robot, it crossed my mind that one of my own biggest daily frustrations was something that w

news.ycombinator.com• Sep 12, 2020• 1 min read

Show HN: ThinkStation – Interactive Live Education Streams for Ages 5-10Hi HN,We're Mayu & Glenn, the founders of ThinkStation (Free BETA: https://beta.thinkstation.io/download/). We provide an education platform for kids aged 5-10 to learn intriguing concepts through interactive Live Instruction!Now more than ever, we know parents are stressed out. We want to help you buy back 30 minutes of your day to enjoy a sip of coffee, nap or work! Your kids can learn about the dirty jobs of the middle ages, or learning what is money whilst you sip away on a tea with a book -- and its content you can trust!We’ve come from the realm of extracurricular education -- prior to testing this, we use to run a robotics/programming camp where we taught students to learn languages such as C#, JS etc through projects and have them compete at university hackathons -- and win :) When COVID hit we had to shut down and it was pretty brutal -- especially because we were so used to teaching students in person.I was then helping my sister out taking care of her 3 year old daughter --

news.ycombinator.com• Mar 26, 2020• 1 min read

Ask HN: Looking for help/advice/mentoring resources online, free or paidMy life is a mess. I am lost in regard to what I want to do, what are my abilities, and at the same time, I think I am not good enough to compete with other people in our globalized ultra-competitive job market. On top of that, I feel like my life is going nowhere.To add insult to injury, I feel very lonely even though I have 4-5 friends with whom I talk once in a while.I am already seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist, having said so, they have not been able to address and help me out in questions like "I feel like even though I like a variety of fields, I at the same time have failed in every attempt I've had in studying "insert x field" since I was 16 years old".BTW, I am a 20 year old male from Spain who dropped out of uni during my freshman year in CS after failing every single subject I had, and 3 months ago I dropped out of vocational school where I was studying Robotics & Automation. I was only to graduate from High School even though I failed 2 core subjects (biology and c

news.ycombinator.com• Sep 17, 2019• 1 min read

Hacker Dojo 10-Yr Anniversary- Oct 05 and 06, Santa Clara, CAHacker Dojo 10 year Anniversary Oct 05 & 06 Premiering HD/SHDH DocumentaryArtist performing: Vector Hold, Roger Linn, Tim Thompson, Maha, Ani, Codame, Ge Wang (Stanford Laptop Orchestra), Moldover, d0n.xyz, Aure, Electric KitchenSpeakers: Peter Norvig- Head of Research, Google, Chris Messina, Inventor of Hashtags, Max Hodak - President of Neuralink, David Weekly, Jeff Lindsay, Tom Harrison, Joel Franusic - Founders of Hacker Dojo and Super Happy Dev House, and more to be announced.Dub Clinic Auto showcase SVACA Pet Adoption Drive Robotics Demos Workshops and of course, to keep traditions alive, there will be a bouncy house.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacker-dojo-10-year-anniversary-return-of-the-happy-dev-tickets-63933786677

bing.com• Aug 8, 2018• 1 min read

Meet Vector, Anki's mini home robot with a big personalityLexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...