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embodied AI and robotics platforms

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

horizontal · 270 members · Data as of 2026-09-30

These products provide autonomous hardware, simulation environments, and training datasets designed for real-world robotics and physical automation. They are built for robotics engineers, industrial manufacturers, and AI researchers developing physical agents. This cluster is distinguished by its focus on grounding artificial intelligence in the physical world through hardware design, computer vision, and embodied manipulation.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
186
Prior count
43
Total count
270
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.49
Crowding
0.87
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.45

Opportunity components

Attention
0.49
Low crowding
0.13
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
94 (0.51)
hn
27 (0.15)
ph
22 (0.12)
yc
43 (0.23)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.39

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
dohnuts GITHUB 28 2026-09-21
research-pass GITHUB 28 2026-09-23
Mach9 - Make Maps Fast. AI-Powered CAD Software for Reality Capture YC 29 2026-03-30
Human Archive: The World's Largest multimodal robotics dataset YC 29 2026-03-08
Sports-Matter GITHUB 30 2026-09-25
DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning HN 30 2026-08-09
fde-workbench GITHUB 30 2026-09-28
Interfaze - Deterministic AI for developer tasks: OCR, Object detection, Web scraping, STT, Classification and more YC 32 2026-04-20
Intelligence Factory YC 33 2026-05-30
Autostep - Uncover Repetitive Tasks Ready For AI YC 33 2026-02-27
JEPLO GITHUB 34 2026-09-12
Motus2 GITHUB 35 2026-09-11
hwb-math-modeling-skills GITHUB 35 2026-09-16
Instance: Automated evaluation for robot policies, starting with the success detector YC 36 2026-07-13
open-beni GITHUB 37 2026-09-24
Traverse - Data Research for the Non-Verifiable YC 41 2026-03-06
WorldPlay2 GITHUB 41 2026-09-28
star-projects GITHUB 41 2026-09-22
OMEGA-0 GITHUB 42 2026-09-29
cs2-movement-issue-bhop GITHUB 44 2026-09-27
RoboJEV GITHUB 44 2026-09-20
InternW0-Delta GITHUB 45 2026-09-24
Public transit systems as data HN 47 2026-03-29
oil-ui GITHUB 49 2026-09-30
Dreamscale Labs: Running robot brains in the cloud YC 50 2026-09-17
InJepa GITHUB 50 2026-09-27
AIML-workshop GITHUB 51 2026-09-20
Soft Body Jiggle Physics HN 52 2026-06-01
Godot-Locomotion GITHUB 52 2026-09-25
Tame_3D GITHUB 53 2026-09-28
Raven HN 54 2026-09-29
awesome-rsi GITHUB 56 2026-09-12
Awesome-Multimodal-Embodied-Agent GITHUB 58 2026-09-10
Yondu AI ➡️ Enabling the robot workforce of the future YC 58 2025-11-14
Osseus: The intelligent development platform for robotics YC 59 2026-08-11
Simple-WAM GITHUB 59 2026-09-28
Shiraz AI: Robots that learn on the job YC 62 2026-08-12
jev-libero GITHUB 63 2026-09-19
Neuromorphic - Building an embodiment-agnostic “brain” that makes robots fast to deploy YC 73 2026-08-10
ant-1 GITHUB 80 2026-09-12
How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models HN 81 2026-09-16
Hebbian Robotics - APIs for searching and analyzing Physical AI data at scale YC 81 2026-08-09
MathmoBench GITHUB 88 2026-09-23
dexterous-astra GITHUB 93 2026-09-17
Moss: Real-time Semantic Search for Conversational AI YC 107 2025-10-30
system-design-trainer GITHUB 109 2026-09-28
skills GITHUB 110 2026-09-27
system1-agents GITHUB 120 2026-09-22
Ontora - The Discovery Layer for AI Transformation YC 121 2026-06-08
JBR-001 HN 122 2026-09-29