Early commercial·momentum 52·707 papers in 3 months (+30% yearly)·$4.7B raised in 12 months·17 companies
Robots shaped like people, run by AI models that let one machine learn many physical tasks instead of one.
Why early commercial: Agility Robotics reported more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit orders when it announced its move to go public. Jun 24, 2026
Papers per monthOpenAlex journal and conference papers; January includes papers dated by year only; the last two months are still filling in
Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.
Humanoid hardware, Robot foundation models, Robot manufacturing, Warehouse and logistics, Home robots, Robot compute and simulation
Stage evidence
Early commercial, Jun 24, 2026: Agility Robotics reported more than $300 million of multi-year contracted Digit orders when it announced its move to go public. agilityrobotics.com
Momentum
52 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (69), funding in 12 months (75) and events in 90 days (13). Method
Papers
4,669 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +30% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
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Sep 25, 2026
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Humanoid robotsTechnology: Name, Humanoid robots (was Humanoid and general-purpose robots)
