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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
cs2-movement-issue-bhop GITHUB 41 2026-09-27
star-projects GITHUB 41 2026-09-22
WorldPlay2 GITHUB 41 2026-09-28
Traverse - Data Research for the Non-Verifiable YC 41 2026-03-06
open-beni GITHUB 37 2026-09-24
Instance: Automated evaluation for robot policies, starting with the success detector YC 36 2026-07-13
hwb-math-modeling-skills GITHUB 35 2026-09-16
Motus2 GITHUB 35 2026-09-11
JEPLO GITHUB 34 2026-09-12
Autostep - Uncover Repetitive Tasks Ready For AI YC 33 2026-02-27
Intelligence Factory YC 33 2026-05-30
Interfaze - Deterministic AI for developer tasks: OCR, Object detection, Web scraping, STT, Classification and more YC 32 2026-04-20
Sports-Matter GITHUB 30 2026-09-25
DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning HN 30 2026-08-09
Human Archive: The World's Largest multimodal robotics dataset YC 29 2026-03-08
Mach9 - Make Maps Fast. AI-Powered CAD Software for Reality Capture YC 29 2026-03-30
Alloy · AI Prototyping for Product Managers YC 28 2025-10-29
research-pass GITHUB 28 2026-09-23
dohnuts GITHUB 28 2026-09-21
oil-ui GITHUB 28 2026-09-30
WB-WAM-Official GITHUB 28 2026-09-25
fde-workbench GITHUB 27 2026-09-28
MoonBridge-Release GITHUB 27 2026-09-26
HINT GITHUB 26 2026-09-18
care GITHUB 26 2026-09-17
Servo7 - Robots for Industry YC 26 2026-02-09
instinctual-memory GITHUB 26 2026-09-21
SR-Paper-List GITHUB 26 2026-09-09
Aha-Looped-Transformer GITHUB 25 2026-09-15
steer GITHUB 25 2026-09-11
Matforge - AI Scientists to discover new semiconductor materials YC 25 2026-04-21
Grounded-Action-Model GITHUB 25 2026-09-22
GLUE Robo: Lab automation layer for robots & instruments YC 24 2025-11-11
Auto-Modeling-Skill GITHUB 23 2026-09-15
ULTRA GITHUB 23 2026-09-25
Pairio – Fix broken equipment in factories faster YC 23 2026-04-21
Spatial AI: Large datasets for robot foundation models YC 22 2025-11-17
Feldy: Field-first AI for home services and contractors. YC 22 2026-08-13
Standard Machines. Teaching AI to Design Advanced Chips. YC 22 2026-08-24
RoboICL GITHUB 22 2026-09-19
Awesome-Human-AI-Alignment GITHUB 22 2026-09-09
robodiag-harness GITHUB 22 2026-09-14
Drafted.ai - Design a Home Instantly Using AI YC 22 2026-05-29
CausalWM GITHUB 21 2026-09-16
PhAIL HN 21 2026-03-31
DataFlow-AgentMM GITHUB 21 2026-09-22
Axol - A dual-arm robot built for AI. YC 20 2026-06-10
🦾 Cortex AI — Large-Scale Real-World Data for General-Purpose Robotics YC 20 2025-11-08
Synthetic Sciences – AI Co-Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Research YC 20 2026-02-26
SpatialSpeak-VLM GITHUB 20 2026-09-29