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The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build

https://spectrum.ieee.org/agility-robotics-digit-5-redesign
9•bojackh•2d ago

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tailsdog•38m ago
Does it even need legs? For most of these factory use cases would it not be more efficient/cheaper to have a version that has wheels to get around?
contingencies•19m ago
The market for souped-up vacuum cleaners is already saturated.
dvh•16m ago
Are these kind of robots even economically viable? I've seen them doing work that would generally pay like $3/h. And human after a week is significantly faster.
WillAdams•1m ago
>As of late 2026, Amazon’s U.S. warehouse hourly pay generally ranges from about $18 to $22 for most roles.

That said, after a while, one can be surprisingly fast when picking --- on one occasion I walked up to a bin full of non-descript cardboard boxes, grabbed one, spun it in my hands for the six-sided box check and scanned it to verify it was the correct pick, and then was asked to explain how I had gotten that right by a trainer w/ a bunch of trainees--- it seemed like almost five minutes of explanation of minor differences in cardboard texture, box shape, construction and so forth to explain how it was that at first glance, that was the only correct choice.

I've always wondered if LLMs would arrive at a similar conclusion with on-going training as they are used.

WillAdams•8m ago
>It needed to achieve the lifting limits recommended under the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for human workers, which include repeatedly lifting 23-kg bins and reaching shelves 1.75 meters high. Digit is designed to perform tasks like these for 20 hours a day—something no human can do.

I think that rather underestimates what people can and have done (cue John Henry story).

I worked in an Amazon warehouse for two different stints:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfi...

and it was rather like a gym membership which I couldn't skip out on (glances at exercise equipment cluttering living space) and during which I could ponder life choices and consequences while wishing there was a soundtrack/music.

That said, this sort of thing, LLMs/AIs and data centers, and so forth feel like a perfect storm leading up to singularity (as envisioned by some optimistic science fiction authors) or something far worse, cue Marshall Brain's novella "Manna":

https://karmak.org/archive/2003/12/manna/manna1.htm

amelius•4m ago
Can anyone explain that if we had this more than 10 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2bqz3HPJE

we are still struggling with making a robot walk?

CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-111943
92•keks24•1h ago•23 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/
17•molind•55m ago•0 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
219•alphax314•8h ago•68 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
209•craigcitro•7h ago•140 comments

Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM

https://fleetingswallow.com/minotaur-ai-deep-dive-achieving-reasoning-without-a-language-model/
23•edwardchalk•1h ago•3 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
470•passenger•12h ago•273 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
387•kuberwastaken•15h ago•356 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
322•riffraff•2d ago•196 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
522•abhisek•20h ago•172 comments

Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
311•kaycebasques•15h ago•187 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
98•jimauthors•1d ago•52 comments

GitLab critical patch release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
355•artooro•15h ago•82 comments

OpenAI CLI

https://github.com/openai/openai-cli
125•armcat•5h ago•72 comments

The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build

https://spectrum.ieee.org/agility-robotics-digit-5-redesign
9•bojackh•2d ago•6 comments

What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/karakoram-anomaly-it-real
35•thunderbong•2d ago•8 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
351•swyx•1d ago•53 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
568•cbg0•16h ago•327 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
221•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•50 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
4•wffurr•2d ago•0 comments

Code is clay now

https://www.albertodenia.com/writing/code-is-clay-now
174•albertodenia•2d ago•115 comments

mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
483•ahlCVA•10h ago•115 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
293•armcat•21h ago•121 comments

Beyond the &

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096028/
67•PaulHoule•1d ago•4 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
419•nnx•20h ago•56 comments

ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/thinkpad-i9990303-error-catch-22/
28•userbinator•2d ago•4 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
740•ejohnso49•18h ago•367 comments

Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara
81•kmansm27•17h ago•25 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/
95•ibobev•2d ago•50 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
530•zkldi•11h ago•322 comments

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35
1036•tuyuri•20h ago•547 comments