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Robotics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (102)

Robotics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 102 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 113 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Robotics: humanoid robots, Boston Dynamics, Atlas, legged locomotion, drones, industrial robots, robot control, manipulation, robot demos, Figure, Tesla Optimus, drone delivery.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us: “Excellent video on the subject: CGPGrey - Humans Need Not Apply” — an HN commenter, 2015.

Robotics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (102)

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7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

Slaughterbots

Giant Robot Project, Part 1

Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth

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

Festo - SmartBird

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

Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard

I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

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

The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

Sand Flea Jumping Robot

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

The Braitenberg Vehicles

Slaughterbots

High-Speed Robot Hand

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

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

Missile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test

MIT ACL - Variable Pitch Quadrotor

Onboard quadrocopter failsafe: flight after actuator failure

A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge

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

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Janken (rock-paper-scissors) Robot with 100% winning rate

Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER

Double Pendulum on a Cart

You have 20 seconds to comply.

World's first manned flight with an electric multicopter

GE Walking Truck - Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) 1969.

Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: recovery after propeller loss

Triple Pendulum on a Cart

NavLab 1 (1986) : Carnegie Mellon : Robotics Institute History of Self-Driving Cars

Decerebrate Cat walks and exhibits multiple gait patterns

New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)