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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.
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0 mo on HNGE Walking Truck - Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine (CAM) 1969.
Reuben Hoggett
0 HN recommender · 2013–2019
0 mo on HNMore Parkour Atlas
Boston Dynamics
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HNRheinmetall Air Defence: Ahead - Highly effective, programmable ammunition
Rheinmetall – Der integrierte Technologiekonzern
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNQuadrocopter failsafe algorithm: recovery after propeller loss
Mark Mueller
0 HN recommender · 2014–2019
0 mo on HNCheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph; a bit faster than Usain Bolt
Boston Dynamics
0 HN recommender · 2013–2015
0 mo on HNOptimus - Gen 2 | Tesla
Tesla
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
0 mo on HNTriple Pendulum on a Cart
Tobias Glück
0 HN recommender · 2014–2021
0 mo on HNNew Robot Can Now Fight Back! (Corridor Digital)
Corridor Digital
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNDo You Love Me?
Boston Dynamics
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HNGoogle's DeepMind AI Just Taught Itself To Walk
Insider Tech
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HNParamedic Mountain Rescue!
Gravity Industries
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HN(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels
RLLberkeley
0 HN recommender · 2014–2024
0 mo on HNRaytheon’s High-Power Microwave Weapon Downs Drones
AviationWeek
0 HN recommender · 2019–2021
0 mo on HNTesla AI Day 2021
Tesla
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNDJI Phantom 2 Injury
Armando Izquierdo
0 HN recommender · 2014–2015
0 mo on HNSkydio Dock Tease
Skydio
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HNMartial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala #CoolChina #springfestival2026 #kungfu
CGTN
0 HN recommender · 2026–2026
0 mo on HN0.38 Second Rubik's Cube Solve
Ben Katz
0 HN recommender · 2018–2024
0 mo on HNNavLab 1 (1986) : Carnegie Mellon : Robotics Institute History of Self-Driving Cars
CMU Robotics Institute
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNRheinmetall Air Defence – Skynex truck-mounted engaging drone swarm
Rheinmetall – Der integrierte Technologiekonzern
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HNAtlas, The Next Generation
Boston Dynamics
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNThe Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot
KUKA Group
0 HN recommender · 2015–2026
0 mo on HNCharger prototype finding its way to Model S
Tesla
0 HN recommender · 2015–2026
0 mo on HNMy robot double sells out (so I don't have to)
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNTeaching Robots New Behaviors
Toyota Research Institute
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNThe astounding athletic power of quadcopters | Raffaello D'Andrea
TED
0 HN recommender · 2015–2021
0 mo on HNIntroducing WildCat
Boston Dynamics
0 HN recommender · 2013–2015
0 mo on HNDecerebrate Cat walks and exhibits multiple gait patterns
0zxr
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNNew Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Corridor Digital)
Corridor Digital
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNAdam Savage's Spot Robot Rickshaw Carriage!
Adam Savage’s Tested
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024