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How “humanoid robot” trended on Hacker News

“Humanoid robot” was mentioned 3,225 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2026 with 158 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “humanoid robot” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “humanoid robot”

1. 1.Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot 406 points · 405 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot 282 points · 36 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” 254 points · 396 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots 233 points · 95 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines 228 points · 94 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.K-Scale Labs: Open-source humanoid robots, built for developers 142 points · 61 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Toddlerbot: Open-Source Humanoid Robot 133 points · 23 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports 132 points · 80 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot 123 points · 89 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
10. 10.New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] 119 points · 3 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Boston Dynamics retires its legendary humanoid robot 83 points · 2 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Humanoid construction robot installs drywall 76 points · 45 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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