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Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development 35 by AntonioLi | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://ift.tt/3johDuN ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots. So I built my own. After seven iterations the latest Nori has: * 19 degrees of freedom * Two 7+1 DOF arms with a 1.5 kg payload per arm * A 55 kg telescoping lift * A differential wheeled base * Four 720p, 30 fps RGB cameras * 2D lidar * A dual microphone array with full-duplex voice communication * A 432 Wh battery * A Raspberry Pi 5 with 4 GB RAM (SLAM and safeties are run on boar...

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones 13 by vinnyglennon | 7 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/D5nxQvm

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI 14 by geox | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Norway Shrugged 12 by vinnyglennon | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver 6 by SillyUsername | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Should We Have Kept the American Empire? 8 by vinnyglennon | 0 comments on Hacker News.