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embodied AI and robotics platforms

Recent window: last 5.1 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-27), compared with the prior 5.1 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
179
Prior count
43
Total count
270
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.49
Crowding
0.86
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.45

Opportunity components

Attention
0.49
Low crowding
0.14
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
88 (0.49)
hn
27 (0.15)
ph
21 (0.12)
yc
43 (0.24)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.37

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
Luel: The Marketplace for Multimodal Data YC 766 2026-02-02
Awesome-Astra-Embodied-AI GITHUB 758 2026-09-12
Piggy Robotics - Humanoid robots YC 753 2025-11-21
Dream-RSI GITHUB 467 2026-09-13
Composer 2.5 PH 435 2026-05-19
Tensr: Building Autonomous Robotic Factories YC 365 2025-11-14
Forge Robotics - The Future of Manufacturing YC 284 2025-11-10
Allus AI — Vision Foundation Model for Manufacturing YC 282 2025-11-10
jev-align GITHUB 281 2026-09-19
Phyzical_org GITHUB 258 2026-09-09
δ Thesis: Building the frontier of AI discovery YC 232 2025-11-11
embodied-jev GITHUB 222 2026-09-20
Pavoot: Create event experiences that convert YC 183 2026-05-06
Lightberry - Robots with Soul YC 178 2025-11-04
Grok 4.5 PH 172 2026-07-27
ai-model-world GITHUB 162 2026-09-17
skills GITHUB 160 2026-09-19
hillclimb - Training data derived from human superintelligence YC 155 2025-11-15
llm-robotics-playground GITHUB 149 2026-09-17
Efference - Helping robots see like humans do YC 122 2025-11-04
Ontora - The Discovery Layer for AI Transformation YC 121 2026-06-08
system1-agents GITHUB 120 2026-09-22
system-design-trainer GITHUB 109 2026-09-28
skills GITHUB 108 2026-09-27
Moss: Real-time Semantic Search for Conversational AI YC 107 2025-10-30
JBR-001 HN 99 2026-09-29
dexterous-astra GITHUB 93 2026-09-17
MathmoBench GITHUB 88 2026-09-23
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
ant-1 GITHUB 80 2026-09-12
Neuromorphic - Building an embodiment-agnostic “brain” that makes robots fast to deploy YC 73 2026-08-10
jev-libero GITHUB 63 2026-09-19
Shiraz AI: Robots that learn on the job YC 62 2026-08-12
Simple-WAM GITHUB 59 2026-09-28
Osseus: The intelligent development platform for robotics YC 59 2026-08-11
Yondu AI ➡️ Enabling the robot workforce of the future YC 58 2025-11-14
Awesome-Multimodal-Embodied-Agent GITHUB 58 2026-09-10
awesome-rsi GITHUB 56 2026-09-12
Raven HN 54 2026-09-29
Soft Body Jiggle Physics HN 52 2026-06-01
Godot-Locomotion GITHUB 52 2026-09-25
AIML-workshop GITHUB 51 2026-09-20
Dreamscale Labs: Running robot brains in the cloud YC 50 2026-09-17
InJepa GITHUB 50 2026-09-27
Tame_3D GITHUB 49 2026-09-28
Public transit systems as data HN 47 2026-03-29
InternW0-Delta GITHUB 45 2026-09-24
RoboJEV GITHUB 44 2026-09-20
OMEGA-0 GITHUB 42 2026-09-29