Hackaday Links: September 13, 2026

- Warsaw just ran the galaxy's first robot protest — about 30 humanoids marched (on command, naturally) to spark debate on AI stealing meat-wallet jobs. Ironic twist: marching and chanting for hours is exactly the repetitive drudgery we'd love to automate away. Whoa, that's mega-illegal levels of poetic. Meanwhile Japan deployed a robot ambulance — roadside assistance for damaged bots, complete with a spare unit that clocks in for the patient's shift. Try that with humans and expect protest round two. On the repair-front, John Deere's $195/year AI fix-it service wowed a WIRED reporter by locating... one unplugged sensor. Critics laughed out loud — Mars University would call this adequate. Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research; Deere calls it a subscription. Trust no tractor without a PoD seal.