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  1. The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand 567 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 261 comments
  2. Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again 85 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 125 comments
  3. Embraer's Atech aims to double in size by 2030 with drone traffic control 19 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 2 comments
  4. Musk says he was behind Starlink speed limit after service in Ukraine restored 12 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 2 comments
  5. Passengers injured after collision between bus and delivery robot in Tallinn 11 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 4 comments
  6. Show HN: Artificer by Nua: Frontier robotics task evaluation in 4B parameters 9 points on Hacker News. Hacker News 4 comments

From the ROS community discourse.ros.org · last 30 days

  1. New Project Lead for ROS PMC! 21 likes on ROS Discourse. 0 replies
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  3. Recordings Now Available for ROSCon Global 2026 in Toronto 🎥 13 likes on ROS Discourse. 0 replies
  4. Help us make image_transport and point_cloud_transport better for Makoa! 12 likes on ROS Discourse. 0 replies
  5. Isaac ROS 5.0 with Pixi 10 likes on ROS Discourse. 0 replies
  6. RoboStack moved to a Monorepo 9 likes on ROS Discourse. 0 replies

Papers the field is reading arXiv · ranked by researcher upvotes

  1. PDRVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Physical Dynamics Representations 153 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models generate robot actions from visual observations and language… 2 comments
  2. ThinkWorld: World Imagination Reinforces Chain-of-Dynamics Reasoning 61 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have made substantial progress in robotic manipulation, but their… 2 comments
  3. The Trinity:Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents 44 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Multimodal intelligence can be viewed as human-guided co-evolution between worlds and agents through… 3 comments
  4. Sensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy Success 39 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Robot foundation models are typically evaluated through costly closed-loop rollouts, motivating low-cost… 2 comments
  5. Zooming without Zooming v2: From Seeing Details to Connecting Evidence for Generalizable Multimodal Perception 31 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Multimodal perception forms the foundation of multimodal intelligence. 3 comments
  6. HuGe: Scaling Humanoid Generalist Vision-Language-Action Models with Egocentric Experience 17 upvotes on Hugging Face papers. Extending Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) to humanoid robots requires coordinated whole-body control and… 2 comments

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Robot vacuum
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Introduced
2002
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iRobot
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