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Which physical-AI clusters get the most press coverage?
Article counts by robot form factor across the last five quarters. Every cell is a distinct-article count from the tracked press corpus. As of 2026-09-27, 42 form-factor clusters with tracked coverage.
| Cluster | 2026-Q4 | 2026-Q3 | 2026-Q2 | 2026-Q1 | 2025-Q4 | 5q total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| other | 1 | 25312 | 2337 | 1171 | 719 | 29540 |
| aerial | — | 16896 | 794 | 317 | 208 | 18215 |
| av | — | 7007 | 564 | 231 | 110 | 7912 |
| wearable | — | 5027 | 208 | 78 | 37 | 5350 |
| humanoid | — | 4278 | 626 | 252 | 108 | 5264 |
| sidewalk | — | 3947 | 196 | 60 | 35 | 4238 |
| truck | — | 2367 | 287 | 109 | 46 | 2809 |
| biometric | — | 2598 | 132 | 40 | 8 | 2778 |
| brain | — | 2233 | 202 | 63 | 31 | 2529 |
| amr | — | 1825 | 254 | 150 | 97 | 2326 |
| service | — | 1315 | 261 | 120 | 96 | 1792 |
| personal mobility | — | 1383 | 47 | 32 | 14 | 1476 |
| construction | — | 1384 | 46 | 21 | 9 | 1460 |
| smart home | — | 1232 | 68 | 18 | 5 | 1323 |
| lawn mower | — | 938 | 107 | 38 | 3 | 1086 |
| space | — | 770 | 62 | 26 | 22 | 880 |
| defense | — | 656 | 105 | 70 | 38 | 869 |
| quadruped | — | 590 | 100 | 41 | 4 | 735 |
| maritime | — | 482 | 137 | 52 | 39 | 710 |
| industrial robot | — | 521 | 57 | 22 | 20 | 620 |
| agriculture | — | 349 | 106 | 67 | 80 | 602 |
| defense ugv | — | 329 | 109 | 43 | 38 | 519 |
| surgical | — | 190 | 121 | 70 | 55 | 436 |
| robot vacuum | — | 377 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 435 |
| exoskeleton | — | 297 | 14 | 30 | 19 | 360 |
| underwater | — | 188 | 65 | 42 | 30 | 325 |
| maritime surface | — | 176 | 44 | 16 | 17 | 253 |
| commercial cleaning | — | 46 | 34 | 26 | 10 | 116 |
| cobot | — | 36 | 38 | 21 | 17 | 112 |
| food service | — | 51 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 88 |
| infrastructure | — | 44 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 81 |
| manipulator | — | 22 | 24 | 17 | 12 | 75 |
| mining | — | 25 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 73 |
| companion robot | — | 33 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 53 |
| security patrol | — | 2 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 33 |
| mobile | — | 1 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 27 |
| pool cleaner | — | 5 | 20 | 2 | — | 27 |
| window cleaner | — | 23 | 4 | — | — | 27 |
| unclassified | — | 20 | — | — | — | 20 |
| forklift | — | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| kitchen robot | — | — | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| counter uas | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
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