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Media Search Keywords & Industry Leaders Registry (2026)

Author: Sentinel Integrations — Research & Intelligence

Owner: Michael Morgan

Scope: Master registry of search keywords, hardware OEMs, VLA labs, AV sensor vendors, sovereign-AI toolchains, and prominent individual technical leaders. Feeds the Sentinel poll_signals automation pipeline (blogwatcher + Hugging Face + GitHub + ArXiv + RSS).

Version: 1.0 — 2026

Companion Documents:

Executive Summary

This registry consolidates the strategic search surface Sentinel Integrations tracks across four converging domains: (1) humanoid robotics OEMs and their component supply chains, (2) Vision-Language-Action (VLA) & embodied AI foundation models, (3) autonomous vehicle spatial perception & sensor hardware, and (4) sovereign AI agent, reasoning-loop, and memory architectures. It also inventories the individual technical leaders whose GitHub, ArXiv, and social output constitute early-warning signal for hardware/algorithmic shifts. The final section provides ready-to-plug boolean search strings for automated pollers (GitHub, ArXiv, Hugging Face, RSS/Atom).

Category A — Humanoid Robotics OEMs & Actuator / Component Supply Chain

A.1 — Bipedal & Humanoid Platform OEMs

| OEM | Flagship Platform (2026) | HQ | Primary Search Tokens |

|---|---|---|---|

| Unitree Robotics | G1 / H1 / R1 / H2 | Hangzhou, CN | Unitree, Unitree G1, Unitree H1, Unitree R1, UnifoLM |

| AgiBot (Zhiyuan) | A2 / Lingxi X2 / GO-1 | Shanghai, CN | AgiBot, Zhiyuan, Lingxi X2, AgiBot A2, AgiBot World |

| Kepler Robotics | K2 Forerunner | Shanghai, CN | Kepler K2, Kepler humanoid, Kepler Forerunner |

| Fourier Intelligence | GR-2 / GR-3 | Shanghai, CN | Fourier GR-2, Fourier GR-3, Fourier Intelligence humanoid |

| UBTECH | Walker S1 / S2 | Shenzhen, CN | UBTECH Walker S1, UBTECH Walker S2, Tien Kung |

| EngineAI | PM01 / SE01 | Shenzhen, CN | EngineAI PM01, EngineAI SE01, EngineAI humanoid |

| LimX Dynamics | CL-1 / P1 / TRON1 | Shenzhen, CN | LimX Dynamics, LimX CL-1, TRON1 |

| Booster Robotics | Booster T1 | Beijing, CN | Booster T1, Booster Robotics |

| Robot Era | XBot-L / Star1 | Beijing, CN | Robot Era XBot, Star1 humanoid |

| MagicLab / Magic Atom | MagicBot | CN | MagicLab, MagicBot, Magic Atom humanoid |

| Galbot | G1 mobile-manip | Beijing, CN | Galbot G1, Galbot humanoid |

| XPENG AeroHT / Iron | Iron | Guangzhou, CN | XPENG Iron, Xpeng humanoid |

| Figure AI | Figure 02 / Helix | Sunnyvale, US | Figure 02, Figure AI Helix, Figure humanoid |

| 1X Technologies | NEO Gamma / NEO Beta | Palo Alto / Oslo | 1X NEO, NEO Gamma, 1X Technologies |

| Tesla | Optimus Gen 3 | Palo Alto, US | Optimus Gen 3, Tesla Optimus, Tesla bot |

| Apptronik | Apollo | Austin, US | Apptronik Apollo, Apptronik humanoid |

| Sanctuary AI | Phoenix | Vancouver, CA | Sanctuary Phoenix, Sanctuary AI |

| Agility Robotics | Digit v6 | Salem, US | Agility Digit, Digit humanoid |

| Boston Dynamics | Atlas Electric | Waltham, US | Atlas Electric, Boston Dynamics Atlas |

| Persona AI | (stealth humanoid) | Houston, US | Persona AI humanoid |

| Neura Robotics | 4NE-1 | Metzingen, DE | Neura 4NE-1, Neura Robotics |

| PAL Robotics | Kangaroo / TIAGo Pro | Barcelona, ES | PAL Kangaroo, TIAGo Pro |

A.2 — Actuator, Reducer & Precision-Motion Supply Chain

| Component | Suppliers | Search Tokens |

|---|---|---|

| Harmonic (Strain-Wave) Reducers | Harmonic Drive, Leaderdrive, Laifual, Nidec-Shimpo, Sumitomo | harmonic reducer, strain wave gear, Leaderdrive, Laifual, harmonic drive humanoid |

| Planetary Roller Screws | Rollvis, GSA, Ewellix (SKF), Nook, Kelvin | planetary roller screw, PRS actuator, Rollvis, Ewellix roller screw |

| Frameless PMSM Motors | Kollmorgen, TQ Group, Allied Motion, T-Motor, CubeMars, LKM | frameless PMSM, frameless torque motor, Kollmorgen KBM, T-Motor humanoid, CubeMars |

| Cycloidal Reducers | Nabtesco, Sumitomo, Onvio | cycloidal reducer, Nabtesco RV |

| Absolute Encoders | Renishaw, RLS, Netzer, Zettlex, Broadcom AEAT | magnetic absolute encoder, Renishaw AksIM, Netzer inductive encoder |

| Force / Torque Sensors | ATI Industrial, Bota Systems, OnRobot, Robotous | 6-axis F/T sensor, Bota Systems, ATI mini45 |

| Tactile / Skin Sensors | GelSight, Contactile, Sanctuary, XELA Robotics | GelSight tactile, XELA Robotics, robot tactile skin |

| Batteries / BMS | CATL, EVE Energy, Amperex, Molicel P50B/P45B | Molicel P50B, 21700 humanoid pack, CATL humanoid |

| Structural / CFRP | Toray, Hexcel, custom AM lattice | CFRP humanoid frame, topology optimized limb |

A.3 — Quadruped, Mobile-Manip & Dexterous Hands

Category B — Vision-Language-Action (VLA) & Embodied AI Frontier

B.1 — Frontier VLA Foundation Models

| Lab / Company | Model Family | Search Tokens |

|---|---|---|

| Physical Intelligence | π0 / π0.5 / π-fast | Physical Intelligence pi0, π0 flow matching, pi-zero VLA |

| Google DeepMind | RT-2, RT-X, Gemini Robotics, Gemini Robotics-ER | Gemini Robotics, RT-2, Open X-Embodiment, RT-X |

| Figure AI | Helix | Figure Helix VLA, Helix dual-system |

| Skild AI | SkildBrain | Skild AI, SkildBrain generalist |

| 1X Technologies | 1X World Model, Redwood | 1X World Model, 1X Redwood policy |

| NVIDIA GEAR | GR00T N1 / N1.5 / Isaac | GR00T N1, Isaac GR00T, NVIDIA GEAR |

| Tesla | Optimus policy net | Optimus neural net, Optimus end-to-end |

| Toyota Research Institute | Large Behavior Models (LBM) | TRI LBM, Large Behavior Models diffusion |

| AgiBot / Zhiyuan | GO-1 (ViLLA) | AgiBot GO-1, ViLLA dual-system |

| Unitree | UnifoLM | UnifoLM, Unitree foundation model |

| Meta FAIR | V-JEPA 2, EgoMimic, Habitat 3.0 | V-JEPA 2, EgoMimic, Habitat 3 |

| Stanford / Berkeley | OpenVLA, Octo, CrossFormer | OpenVLA, Octo model, CrossFormer robot |

| Hugging Face | LeRobot, SmolVLA | LeRobot, SmolVLA, Hugging Face robotics |

| Microsoft | Magma, RoboAgent | Microsoft Magma, RoboAgent multi-task |

| Nomagic / Covariant / Symbolica | RFM-1 successors | Covariant RFM, foundation manipulation model |

B.2 — Simulation, Data & Teleop Stacks

B.3 — Cross-Embodiment / Whole-Body Control Research

Tokens: whole-body MPC, RL locomotion sim-to-real, diffusion policy, flow matching policy, action chunking transformer (ACT), RDT-1B, EquivAct, SE(3)-equivariant policy, world model MPC.

Category C — AV, Spatial Perception & Sensor Hardware

C.1 — LiDAR (Solid-state, Flash, SPAD, FMCW)

| Vendor | Notable Product | Tokens |

|---|---|---|

| Hesai Technology | FT120, ATX, JT | Hesai FT120, Hesai ATX, Hesai JT flash LiDAR |

| RoboSense | E1 SPAD, EM4, M-series | RoboSense E1, RoboSense EM4, RoboSense SPAD |

| Innoviz | InnovizTwo, Innoviz360 | InnovizTwo, Innoviz360 |

| Luminar | Iris+, Halo | Luminar Iris, Luminar Halo |

| Aeva | Aeries II FMCW | Aeva FMCW, Aeries II LiDAR |

| Ouster | OS series, DF flash | Ouster OS2, Ouster DF |

| Seyond (Innovusion) | Falcon-K, Robin | Seyond Falcon, Innovusion |

| Livox / DJI | Mid-360, HAP | Livox Mid-360, Livox HAP |

| Valeo | Scala 3 | Valeo Scala 3 |

| Cepton | Nova, Vista-X | Cepton Nova, Cepton Vista |

C.2 — Automotive & Robotics Image Sensors

C.3 — Radar / Ultrasonic / Event Cameras

C.4 — AV / Robotics Compute Silicon

C.5 — AV Full-Stack Players

Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, Motional, Wayve GAIA-2, Nuro, Aurora Innovation, Pony.ai, WeRide, AutoX, DeepRoute, Applied Intuition, Foretellix, Parallel Domain, Helm.ai.

Category D — Sovereign AI Agents, Reasoning Loops, Context & Memory

D.1 — Agent Frameworks & Runtimes

D.2 — Local Inference & Sovereign Stacks

D.3 — Reasoning Loops, Memory & Context OS

Tokens: context engineering, context rot, agentic memory, episodic memory agent, procedural memory LLM, graph memory, Zep, Mem0, Letta (formerly MemGPT), Cognee, Memory OS, Qdrant hybrid search, BM25 dense fusion, LightRAG, GraphRAG, PropertyGraphIndex.

D.4 — Governance, Safety & Adversarial

Category E — Key Figures & Technical Pioneers (Global AI Ecosystem)

E.1 — VLA / Embodied AI Research

E.2 — Foundation Models / Reasoning

E.3 — Sovereign / Local / Agentic Systems

E.4 — AV, Perception & Sensor Silicon

E.5 — Security, Governance & Agentic Risk

Category F — Boolean Search Strings & Feed Filtering Keywords

These strings are designed to be dropped into GitHub Search API, ArXiv, Hugging Face, and RSS keyword filters used by poll_signals.py.

F.1 — GitHub Repository Search (OR-joined; keep under ~256 chars per query)

Q_HUMANOID = "humanoid robot OR bipedal locomotion OR whole-body control OR quadruped RL OR Unitree OR AgiBot OR LeRobot OR isaac lab"
Q_VLA      = "vision language action OR VLA policy OR diffusion policy OR flow matching policy OR OpenVLA OR pi0 OR GR00T OR SmolVLA"
Q_AV       = "BEV perception OR occupancy network OR gaussian splatting SLAM OR solid state lidar OR SPAD lidar OR nuScenes OR CARLA"
Q_AGENTS   = "agentic AI OR agent framework OR MCP server OR model context protocol OR DSPy OR LangGraph OR agent memory OR context engineering"
Q_SECURITY = "prompt injection OR indirect prompt injection OR MCP security OR agent jailbreak OR tool poisoning OR OWASP LLM"

F.2 — ArXiv Category Filters

cs.RO AND (abs:"vision-language-action" OR abs:"diffusion policy" OR abs:"whole-body control" OR abs:"sim-to-real")
cs.CV AND (abs:"gaussian splatting" OR abs:"occupancy network" OR abs:"BEV perception" OR abs:"event camera")
cs.AI AND (abs:"agentic" OR abs:"tool use" OR abs:"reasoning trace" OR abs:"self-refine" OR abs:"reflexion")
cs.CR AND (abs:"prompt injection" OR abs:"LLM agent security" OR abs:"MCP" OR abs:"jailbreak")

F.3 — Hugging Face Filter Tokens

tags: robotics, lerobot, vla, diffusion-policy, act, openvla, gr00t, smolvla
pipeline_tag: robotics, image-text-to-text, any-to-any
authors: lerobot, physical-intelligence, nvidia, deepmind, HuggingFaceRobotics

F.4 — RSS / Blog Keyword Filter (case-insensitive substring match)

humanoid, unitree, agibot, figure ai, 1x technologies, tesla optimus, apptronik, boston dynamics, sanctuary ai,
vla, openvla, pi0, physical intelligence, gr00t, lerobot, diffusion policy, flow matching policy, gaussian splatting,
hesai, robosense, luminar, innoviz, aeva, ouster, sony imx, jetson thor, drive thor, blackwell,
mcp, model context protocol, agent memory, dspy, langgraph, hermes agent, ollama, qwen3, deepseek, llama 4,
prompt injection, agentjacking, tool poisoning, owasp llm, akrites, ai act, iso 42001

F.5 — Handles / Accounts To Track (X / GitHub / HF)

@svlevine, @chelseabfinn, @DrJimFan, @karpathy, @ylecun, @ericjang11, @adcock_brett,

@simonw, @Teknium1, @NousResearch, @JustinLin610, @tri_dao, @_akhaliq, @omarsar0,

@rehberger, @hwchase17, @jerryjliu0, @_philschmid, @RemiCadene, @RaquelUrtasun.

GitHub orgs: huggingface/lerobot, NVIDIA-Isaac-GR00T, openvla/openvla, octo-models/octo,

Physical-Intelligence/openpi, deepmind/mujoco, carla-simulator/carla, nutonomy/nuscenes-devkit,

modelcontextprotocol/, nous-research/, ollama/ollama, ggerganov/llama.cpp.

Category G — Social Media, Developer Discourse & Bot Tracking Channels

Active tracking directory for developer discourse, bot scrapers, and community channels where practitioners critique, benchmark, and deploy AI tooling.

G.1 — Hacker News (Algolia & Live Firehose)

- agent (Agentic frameworks, autonomous runs, multi-agent loops, context engineering)

- robotics / humanoid (Bipedal platforms, actuator mechanics, ROS 2, Isaac Sim)

- VLA / diffusion policy (Vision-language-action policies, flow matching)

- LLM / Ollama (Local inference, quantization, open weights, edge compute)

- MCP (Model Context Protocol servers, tool safety, protocol extensions)

G.2 — X / Twitter Key Accounts, Bot Trackers & Lists

- @_akhaliq (AK / Hugging Face daily paper curator)

- @AlphaSignalAI (Automated weekly breakthrough summarizer)

- @AiBreakfast (Daily multi-model release roundups)

- @omarsar0 (DAIR.AI research and tutorial drops)

- @DrJimFan (Jim Fan - NVIDIA GEAR / GR00T lead)

- @adcock_brett (Brett Adcock - Figure AI CEO)

- @RemiCadene (Rémi Cadène - Hugging Face LeRobot lead)

- @svlevine & @chelseabfinn (Sergey Levine & Chelsea Finn - Physical Intelligence / Stanford)

- @ericjang11 (Eric Jang - 1X VP of AI)

- @karpathy (Andrej Karpathy - AI education & Eureka/nanoGPT)

- @swyx & @alessiorm (Latent Space podcast / AI Engineering Foundation)

- @levelsio (Pieter Levels - sovereign AI vibe coding & indie infra)

- @bindureddy (Bindu Reddy - Abacus AI open weights & evals)

- @Teknium1 & @NousResearch (Nous Research / Hermes Agent architecture)

- @simonw (Simon Willison - prompt injection & local LLM tooling)

- @ggerganov (Georgi Gerganov - llama.cpp / whisper.cpp edge runtimes)

G.3 — Reddit Developer Subreddits (JSON Endpoints)

G.4 — Hugging Face Daily Papers & Discussion Hubs

G.5 — Newsletters & Technical Long-Form Engineering Blogs

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