"Stole my car!"

We might hear of this some day soon: robots stealing cars.

#robots #security #auto

Hackaday Links: March 15, 2026

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/hackaday-links-march-15-2026/

Hackaday Links: March 15, 2026 https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/hackaday-links-march-15-2026/
#HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #Ageverification #Ram #Robots #Theterminator

Nowadays, I am immediately alarmed and suspicious when I hear the words "golden age".

Atoms Founder Travis Kalanick Says Robots Will Usher in a 'Golden Age' - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-atoms-uber-humanoid-robots-golden-age-2026-3?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#GoldenAge #TravisKalanick #TechBros #DonaldTrump #Atoms #Robots

@gottalaff.bsky.social Displaced workers should own the #robots, or at least a share of them. (I include #AI in this). Collectively own them would be ideal. They then receive a proportional share of profits due to productivity improvements. Just a thought.

My first post on Medium:

https://medium.com/@mariamannone/clouds-of-robots-87722e189fff

#quantum #swarm #robots #simulation

iGarden M1 Pro Max 100 Review: A Sports Car for Your Pool

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/review/igarden-m1-pro-max-100-pool-robot/

Book Review: Robots in Space - The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers by Dr Ezzy Pearson

Mars is the only planet entirely populated by robots. This book is a catalogue of the history of robotic explorers. Nary a human-crewed mission is mentioned, except in passing. Instead, we get to look at the practicalities of landing a little robot a million miles away, the people that made it happen, and the politics which inevitably stymied things.

And there is a lot of politics.

One of the weakest areas is the political analysis behind the stories. For example, a Soviet Lunar rover is described as being "daubed with the sickle and hammer" - but there's no derogatory mention of the stars, stipes, and eagles on American craft. Similarly we hear about "the Soviet plans to invade Mars proceeded unabated" - there's no deriding description of the American plans to colonise various planets. The efforts of the European Space Agency described as "[m]ore than fifty industrial contractors from fifteen nations were involved in construction. Safe to say, it was a logistical nightmare." - while ignoring the various back-room deals that led to the American space programme being distributed around their country and their resultant logistical problems.

It isn't relentlessly pro-American (there's lots of descriptions of their failures) but it feels a bit one-sided.

There are some gorgeous photos spread throughout the book. Sadly, the ebook relegates most of them to the end rather than interspersing them with the text. At least one of the images is incorrect although, thankfully, the attribution hyperlinks to the correct photo on NASA's site.

I'm being a bit down on the book. It is a decent enough look at all the problems faced by space agencies as they tried to send machines into the void. For those of us in the computer industry, it is depressing to continually read about how we're often the weakest link:

On 2 September, a computer command was sent to Phobos 1 to turn on the gamma ray spectrometer. A single hyphen had been left out of the code, transforming it into an order for Phobos 1 to shut down. There was no way to turn it back on.

Yikes! The book is full of titbits like that - minor errors which led to major catastrophes.

It's a good starting point for anyone with an interest in space exploration and how technical and political challenges can be overcome.

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#BookReview #robots

@ishotjr Giovanni jumped in with some tips on setting up Arduino Alvik #robots, near the end of our last #DayGlowShow episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7xYv9mFrU

Glad we’ll get to chat more on Monday! 🤖✨

https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/faster-humanoid-deployment/

"Texas Instruments has teamed up with NVIDIA to link technologies designed to "accelerate the path from simulation to the safe deployment of humanoid robots in the real world."

Ai-powered Terminator?
What could go wrong?

#robots #ai #Noai

You never know what you will spot in a random space next to a garage in Northeast PA.
#robots
#sculpture
#scrapmetal

🎉 Oh no, the #robots are #taking our jobs! 😱 45,000 #tech workers bid farewell in March, with #AI snatching 9,200 gigs. But don't worry, there are plenty of conferences to remind you of how innovative and unemployable you are! 🦾📉
https://technode.global/2026/03/09/2026-tech-layoffs-reach-45000-in-march-more-than-9200-due-to-ai-and-automation-rationalfx/ #jobs #layoffs #innovation #unemployment #HackerNews #ngated

Chapter thirteen of Synthetic Agency is here!

The angst continues...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/synthetic-agency-153042914

Synthetic Agency is an android romance novel I'm serialising on my Patreon. You can read the first chapter for free: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119290924?collection=1313927

Boosts very much appreciated!

#robots #fiction #romance #SF #lgbtq+ #writing

#AI is testing Military #Robots in #Ukraine

#cdnpoli #Canada #BoycottAI

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV1AGMdDkVf/?igsh=MXc4ZGxpcXBqMTlpaQ==

🤖 #Robots #Mecha & #Robotics accounts to follow:

ROBOTICS
@drcaberry - Professor of Engineering & Robotics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
@loy - Robotics & tech fan, energy efficient houses
@kd8bxp - Video maker interested in robotics, radio, retro tech

ART
@smoketopus - Draws robots in a cute adorable style, makes mini-comics
@smerp - Artist creating works using robot pen plotters
@supaplex - 3D graphics artist, retro sci-fi scenes with robots

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Giant robots battle it out in Detroit's Robowar

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5680260/robowar-robot-battle-detroit

#Detroit #MI #robots

My kid and I got into an argument some years ago when he was 8. He wanted rice pudding for breakfast. «Ok», I said, «but then you have to help and stir?» «I don’t want to! It’s boring!» He said, «Then no pudding!» I replied. He stopped for a moment and said, «Wait, I’ll do it!» Then he went to his room, came back and we made rice pudding for breakfast with this machine. You just got to have your pudding, stirring or no stirring. #robots #pudding #kids #programming

My kid and I got into an argument some years ago when he was 8. He wanted rice pudding for breakfast. «Ok», I said, «but then you have to help and stir?» «I don’t want to! It’s boring!» He said, «Then no pudding!» I replied. #robots #pudding #kids #programming