Trendingby GlyphPhysical AI
Rising · emerged January 2025 · high October 2026 · +4% on the month before · 50 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Models that perceive and act in the physical world: robots, self-driving and the simulators that train them. Named by Nvidia: NVIDIA Launches Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform to Accelerate Physical AI Development (Jan 6, 2025). Also called Embodied AI, Robot foundation models, Vision-language-action models, VLA.
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Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months91 stories
arXiv papers, last 12 months2,675 papers
Wikipedia views, October 20262,341Product releases naming it1 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories1,878Funding rounds naming it6, $3.2B in all| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months91 stories | 91 stories | Adoption |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months2,675 papers | 2,675 papers | Adoption |
| Wikipedia views, October 20262,341 | 2,341 | Adoption |
| Product releases naming it1 since Feb 19, 2026 | 1 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories1,878 | 1,878 | Adoption |
| Funding rounds naming it6, $3.2B in all | 6, $3.2B in all | Adoption |
Companies
| Name | Mentions |
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| 6 | |
| 2 | |
| 1 |
Releases
1 release since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
|---|---|
| Jul 3, 20264 months ago |
Papers
GitHub projects
1,878 repositoriesGenesis-Embodied-AI/genesis-worldSimulation platform for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning.TianxingChen/Embodied-AI-Guide[Lumina具身智能社区] 具身智能技术指南 Embodied-AI-Guidefacebookresearch/habitat-simA flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research.jonyzhang2023/awesome-embodied-vla-va-vlnA curated list of state-of-the-art research in embodied AI, focusing on vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision-language navigation (VLNfacebookresearch/habitat-labA modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments.Octoday-Hub/Embodied-AI「Octoday Hub 星期八具身智能生态社区」聚合论文、项目、课程、工具、数据集、招聘等资源，连接全球开发者、研究者与产业伙伴。
| Name | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis-Embodied-AI/genesis-worldSimulation platform for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning. · Oct 31, 2023 3 years ago | Oct 31, 20233 years ago | 30,147 |
| TianxingChen/Embodied-AI-Guide[Lumina具身智能社区] 具身智能技术指南 Embodied-AI-Guide · May 17, 2024 2 years ago | May 17, 20242 years ago | 16,785 |
| facebookresearch/habitat-simA flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research. · Feb 4, 2019 7 years ago | Feb 4, 20197 years ago | 3,852 |
| jonyzhang2023/awesome-embodied-vla-va-vlnA curated list of state-of-the-art research in embodied AI, focusing on vision-language-action (VLA) models, vision-language navigation (VLN · Jan 16, 2025 1 year ago | Jan 16, 20251 year ago | 3,618 |
| facebookresearch/habitat-labA modular high-level library to train embodied AI agents across a variety of tasks and environments. · Feb 4, 2019 7 years ago | Feb 4, 20197 years ago | 3,179 |
| Octoday-Hub/Embodied-AI「Octoday Hub 星期八具身智能生态社区」聚合论文、项目、课程、工具、数据集、招聘等资源，连接全球开发者、研究者与产业伙伴。 · May 10, 2026 6 months ago | May 10, 20266 months ago | 2,982 |
Funding
6 rounds| Name | Amount | |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 20268 months ago | $1,200M | |
| May 7, 20242 years ago | $1,050M | |
| Aug 24, 20262 months ago | $900M | |
| Apr 15, 20266 months ago | $60M | |
| UbitiumSeed · Oct 13, 2026 4 weeks ago | Oct 13, 20264 weeks ago | $14M |
| Edge Sound ResearchStrategic · Oct 27, 2026 2 weeks ago | Oct 27, 20262 weeks ago | $2M |
Related movements
Humanoid robotsGeneral-purpose robots shaped like people, now driven by learned models instead of hand-written control.World modelsModels that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots.Multimodal AIModels that read and write more than text: images, audio and video in the same model.
| Movement | Stage |
|---|---|
| Humanoid robotsGeneral-purpose robots shaped like people, now driven by learned models instead of hand-written control. | Peak |
| World modelsModels that learn how an environment behaves and can simulate it, for games, video and training robots. | Peak |
| Multimodal AIModels that read and write more than text: images, audio and video in the same model. | Peak |
History
Earliest evidence moved from December 2024 to January 2025
Earliest evidence moved from November 2024 to December 2024
Tracking started: emerged November 2024, rising, 4 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | Earliest evidence moved from December 2024 to January 2025 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Earliest evidence moved from November 2024 to December 2024 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged November 2024, rising, 4 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.