Robotics Videos Hacker News Recommends

explainer#58

What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us

CGP Grey

“Excellent video on the subject: CGPGrey - Humans Need Not Apply”

11 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

explainer#592

Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service

Real Engineering

“this video by Real Engineering that does a great job of explaining how the whole thing works”

9 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#878

Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything

Mark Rober

“They actually solved that. Watch Mark Robers video at 13m50s”

5 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

documentary#896

7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

“If you have not watched the seven minutes of terror video produced by NASA, you absolutely must.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

other#1020

Slaughterbots

Stop Autonomous Weapons

“see Stuart Russell's compelling short film”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

explainer#1052

Drone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong?

Wendover Productions

“I think that Wendover has the best summary”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

other#1220

Giant Robot Project, Part 1

Jaimie Stuff

“I'm afraid I've wrecked what's left of the work day as I follow the saga.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2020

other#1289

Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST

DUST

“which depicts exactly this in harrowing detail”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

documentary#1338

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

Veritasium

“is a nice introduction to the competition and its technical history.”

5 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

explainer#1372

7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video

VideoFromSpace

“Here's a video that blows my mind every time I watch it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

demo#1406

Festo - SmartBird

Festo

“Their Smart Bird is spectacular.[2]”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2021

demo#1676

Boston Dynamics Big Dog (new video March 2008)

olinerd

“Big Dog is truly awesome.”

3 HN recommenders · 2008–2019

talk#1805

Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot

TED

“I often plug Daniel Suarez's great Kill Decision talk and book”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

demo#2042

Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard

Mark Rober

“Another great video is his automatic bulls eye dartboard [2].”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

demo#2172

I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

Stuff Made Here

“really cool video by Stuff Made Here explaining how he tried to make 'realistic' handwritten forgeries with a pen plotter”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

demo#2349

BFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/min

Ishikawa Group Laboratory

“very very impressive but to my knowledge not commercially available”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

news#2403

Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

“This particular thing from Johns Hopkins is just incredible”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

explainer#2457

The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

This Place

“here's an amazing video making a convincing argument that "Uncanny Valley" isn't a thing”

2 HN recommenders · 2021

talk#2476

Tesla AI Day 2022

Tesla

“Learning about their engineering in that regard really changed my perception of the likelihood that they could solve the problem. Give it a watch”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

documentary#2567

The Super-Fast Logistics of Delivering Blood By Drone

Wendover Productions

“Wendover Productions did a great video detailing this a few years back.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#2661

Atlas | Partners in Parkour

Boston Dynamics

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

demo#2815

Sand Flea Jumping Robot

Boston Dynamics

“My favorite is the Sand Flea, a small car which can jump 9 meters (30-feet) into the air”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

explainer#2821

Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile

Computerphile

“I found this video insightful on the matter from Computerphile”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

explainer#2861

The Braitenberg Vehicles

Brian Douglas

“Fascinating thought experiments.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#3252

JuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits

The Julia Programming Language

“There's a nice talk here [1] about using julia in soft-real-time for robotics.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

explainer#3438

How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?

Tom Scott

“I thought this was an interesting insight into what a fully-automated grocery store looks like.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

demo#3731

High-Speed Robot Hand

Hizook

“Take a look at this video from 2009 demonstrating a 1000fps vision system and a very fast robot hand.”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

lecture#3743

The Lighthill debate on Artificial Intelligence: "The general purpose robot is a mirage"

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

“Anyone interested in the History of AI can also watch the report being presented by Lighthill”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

demo#3802

Kiva Systems Warehouse Automation at Quiet Logistics

KivaDirector

“Most are Kiva machines, moving storage racks to human pickers. Here's what that looks like.[2]”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

news#3811

Inside A Warehouse Where Thousands Of Robots Pack Groceries

Insider Tech

“Check out this automated grocery warehouse, something right out of Factorio”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#3826

DEF CON 23 - Robinson and Mitchell - Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline

DEFCONConference

“I'm a fan of "Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

demo#3896

World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen)

Red Bull

“Max was impressed by the perception of speed from the drone footage compared to regular TV broadcast”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

demo#3910

Liam – An Innovation Story

Apple

“see the Liam[0] robot that takes an iPhone down to constituent parts”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

demo#4069

Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test

theworacle

“the MKV thing is so rad”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

demo#4100

Parkour Atlas

Boston Dynamics

“Their latest video of Atlas doing parkour is just insane”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

demo#4119

Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight

TheDmel

“The real takeaway is the radical increase in the abilities of flying drones”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

other#4221

MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!

CS Consulting

“it is chilling in its utter believability.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#4265

MIT ACL - Variable Pitch Quadrotor

AerospaceControlsLab

“A nice variable pitch quad”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2016

demo#4388

BigDog Overview (Updated March 2010)

Boston Dynamics

“Just how resilient is it? Watch it on ice”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

demo#4428

Onboard quadrocopter failsafe: flight after actuator failure

Mark Mueller

“controlled, safe landings of quadrotors with a single failed motor have been demonstrated, see this ETH Zurich video from 2014”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

news#4461

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge

IEEE Spectrum

“One of my favourite videos is this compilation of robots falling (failing) during the simplest tasks at the 2015 DARPA challenge”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

podcast#4481

No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

“he's talking for 5 minutes in detail about exactly why he believes Tesla is ahead of Waymo and will beat them to scale.”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

demo#4591

The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk'

Gajamohan Mohanarajah (Gajan)

“I always thought that was the coolest part of the Cubli project.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

demo#4631

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Goatstream

“Which made me revisit this classic”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

demo#4702

Building the Steam Controller

Valve

“worth watching the Valve Steam Controller Factory video to appreciate the scale of these lights off factories”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026