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General Robots
generalrobots.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2023
Benjie Holson, a robotics engineer, writes about humanoid robots, machine learning for robots, and the field's history.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend his robotics writing and refer to his humanoid Olympics post and "The Mythical Non-Roboticist" in discussions.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games6 people · 150 points · first shared 2025 · 112 comments on HN
- 2The Mythical Non-Roboticist4 people · 201 points · first shared 2024 · 114 comments on HN
- 3A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics2 people · 135 points · first shared 2025 · 67 comments on HN
- 4ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs. End-to-End Learned2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6Single-Use Disposable Applications1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7Why Build a Robot Company?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Whats with All the Humanoid Robots?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10ML for Robots, Specialization vs. Overfitting1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Writing Libraries for AIs to Use1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 13So You Want to Do Robots, Step 4: Profit?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Correct vs. Good1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15Robot Startups: Nailing the Demo1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dmillard · 2024-12-12
Thanks, Benjie! Great to see you here. I hope it's OK if I plug your excellent writings on robotics that I think everyone should check out: https://generalrobots.substack.com/
jlv2 · 2025-11-13
Earlier discussion of the original (https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympic-games) article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609922
SkySkimmer · 2025-10-02
https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympic-games "Use a key", about halfway down
huevosabio · 2024-07-15
> One reason is because we think that other, more inexperienced, programmers might have an easier time with visual programming. If only code wasn't as scary! If only it was visual!
Reminds me of the Mythical Non-Roboticist: https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/the-mythical-non-roboticist
robobenjie · 2024-05-21
This is a little tool I made to try and figure out how to make humanoid startups profitable. It goes with this blog post: https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/humanoid-robots-dollars-and-gpts.
I thought folks here might like to play with it.