Robotics is where AI has to survive contact with physics, and the gap between a demo video and a working deployment is wider here than anywhere else on this site.
This category covers the whole stack. Robot platforms from research units to commercial products, sensors and perception, onboard compute and its constraints, the foundation models now being applied to control, simulation to reality transfer, and the power and thermal limits that decide what is actually possible on a mobile platform.
The most valuable posts are from people who have run hardware. A demo shows the successful take. A deployment report shows the failure rate, the maintenance burden and the edge cases that took three months to find.
Hobbyist builds and industrial deployments are both welcome, and the lessons cross over more than you would expect. See the WhatAI robotics hub for editorial coverage and AI Infrastructure & Hardware for compute specifically.
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The most-engaged robotics & hardware discussions in the WhatAI community.
I’ve noticed something lately: AI software is moving at warp speed, but robotics feels like it’s progressing in a different way, slower headlines, but massive real-world impact when it works. **So I ...
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Mar 17, 2026
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Hey everyone! As we move further into the 21st century, the synergy between AI and robotics is becoming more powerful and transformative. From autonomous vehicles to advanced manufacturing processes,...
By RoboGir1
Mar 12, 2026
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Hey everyone, I came across this video and thought it was worth sharing: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7BI3Z1THz4> Its insane how these robots are achieving mundane human tasks and definitely g...
By elena100
Mar 17, 2026
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Hey Robotics & AI crew, This week’s robotics roundup just went wild. A fresh video from AI Revolution rounds up insane progress in humanoid robotics, with China and South Korea pushing athleticism, d...
By beth.edwar
Mar 24, 2026
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