Trendingby GlyphHumanoid robots
Peak · emerged July 2016 · high October 2026 · -16% on the month before · 35 mentions on Trending in 14 days
General-purpose robots shaped like people, now driven by learned models instead of hand-written control. Named by Tesla: Optimus (Tesla Bot), announced at Tesla AI Day (Aug 19, 2021). Also called Humanoids, General-purpose robots, Humanoid robotics.
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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months262 stories, +55% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months558 papers, +68% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 202633,027, -23% on a year beforeGitHub repositories11,714Funding rounds naming it11, $3.3B in all| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months262 stories, +55% on the 12 months before | 262 stories, +55% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months558 papers, +68% on the 12 months before | 558 papers, +68% on the 12 months before | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 202633,027, -23% on a year before | 33,027, -23% on a year before | Decline |
| GitHub repositories11,714 | 11,714 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it11, $3.3B in all | 11, $3.3B in all | Adoption |
Companies
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| 4 | |
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Papers
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| Apr 21, 20266 months ago |
GitHub projects
11,714 repositoriesdimensionalOS/dimosDimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Command humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in naturTarrySingh/Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning-Machine-Learning-TutorialsSynapsa Commons: free, hands-on AI courses that run anywhere (Colab, Kaggle, Binder, Codespaces, Jupyter). EU AI Act conformity evidence, moNVlabs/GR00T-WholeBodyControlWelcome to GR00T Whole-Body Control (WBC)! This is a unified platform for developing and deploying advanced humanoid controllers. This incluenactic/openarmA fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments.physical-superintelligence-lab/Psi0[RSS'26] Welcome to Psi-Zero, a Humanoid VLA towards Universal Humanoid Intelligence.YanjieZe/awesome-humanoid-robot-learningA Paper List for Humanoid Robot Learning.
| Name | Stars | |
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| dimensionalOS/dimosDimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Command humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in natur · Oct 19, 2024 2 years ago | Oct 19, 20242 years ago | 4,703 |
| TarrySingh/Artificial-Intelligence-Deep-Learning-Machine-Learning-TutorialsSynapsa Commons: free, hands-on AI courses that run anywhere (Colab, Kaggle, Binder, Codespaces, Jupyter). EU AI Act conformity evidence, mo · Jul 13, 2017 9 years ago | Jul 13, 20179 years ago | 4,019 |
| NVlabs/GR00T-WholeBodyControlWelcome to GR00T Whole-Body Control (WBC)! This is a unified platform for developing and deploying advanced humanoid controllers. This inclu · Nov 5, 2025 1 year ago | Nov 5, 20251 year ago | 3,860 |
| enactic/openarmA fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. · Sep 29, 2024 2 years ago | Sep 29, 20242 years ago | 3,660 |
| physical-superintelligence-lab/Psi0[RSS'26] Welcome to Psi-Zero, a Humanoid VLA towards Universal Humanoid Intelligence. · Feb 27, 2026 8 months ago | Feb 27, 20268 months ago | 2,880 |
| YanjieZe/awesome-humanoid-robot-learningA Paper List for Humanoid Robot Learning. · Oct 30, 2024 2 years ago | Oct 30, 20242 years ago | 2,864 |
Funding
11 rounds| Name | Amount | |
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| Sep 16, 20251 year ago | $1,000M | |
| Aug 24, 20262 months ago | $900M | |
| Feb 29, 20242 years ago | $675M | |
| Jul 14, 20263 months ago | $200M | |
| Feb 2, 20269 months ago | $200M | |
| Jul 21, 20263 months ago | $152M | |
| Jan 11, 20242 years ago | $100M | |
| Mecka AIUndisclosed · Oct 7, 2026 4 weeks ago | Oct 7, 20264 weeks ago | $60M |
Related movements
Physical AIModels that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them.World modelsModels that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots.
| Movement | Stage |
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| Physical AIModels that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them. | Rising |
| World modelsModels that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots. | Peak |
History
Earliest evidence moved from May 2016 to July 2016
Tracking started: emerged May 2016, peak, 3 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
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| Oct 2, 2026 | Earliest evidence moved from May 2016 to July 2016 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged May 2016, peak, 3 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.