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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Hacker News stories, last 12 months266 stories, +89% on the 12 months before
266 stories, +89% on the 12 months before
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arXiv papers, last 12 months485 papers, +57% on the 12 months before
dimensionalOS/dimosDimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Command humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in natur · Oct 19, 2024 1y1 year ago
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 10mo10 months ago
Nov 5, 202510mo10 months ago
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enactic/openarmA fully open-source humanoid arm for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. · Sep 29, 2024 1y1 year ago
Sep 29, 20241y1 year ago
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physical-superintelligence-lab/Psi0[RSS'26] Welcome to Psi-Zero, a Humanoid VLA towards Universal Humanoid Intelligence. · Feb 27, 2026 7mo7 months ago
Physical AIModels that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them.
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World modelsModels that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots.
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Sep 24, 2026
Tracking started: emerged May 2016, peak, 3 other names recorded
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