HYPR Labs: ROOBOT! went viral on X and Instagram
A development video the HYPR team posted received almost 1 million views on X, along with 2K+ likes and 500+ bookmarks. On Instagram, the same video generated 5K+ likes, 1K+ shares, and 100+ reposts. For an account that normally receives around 20 likes per post, this was a significant response - and a strong signal that Roobot! has potential 💪
The reactions ranged from complimentary “Product so futuristic it looks like AI generated” to technically insightful “This is an interesting topology with potential to be cheap: 2 wheel motors plus arm” to quite entertaining “The person who made this must be crazy.”
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COMPACT-MODE ENABLED pic.twitter.com/RmdY6XdgkA
— HYPRLABS Inc. (@hypr) May 1, 2026
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXnJ8V-AZCg/
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Drove through San Francisco with @TimKentleyKlay, co-founder and CEO of @hypr, while his AI, HYPRACTIVE, navigated downtown on 33 watts powering an NVIDIA Orin chip that runs HYPR's proprietary models built by just four engineers in two years, for under a million dollars.
— Marwan Refaat (@MarwanRefaat) May 5, 2026
Tim is… pic.twitter.com/dFVPYYHEkF
"Tim is a Melbourne-born designer turned robotics CEO who co-founded Zoox, the first company to operate a purpose-built, fully autonomous robotaxi and scaled it to $3.2B. He envisioned the car becoming a character in 2011, and spent the next decade and a half making that real. 125+ patents, $800M raised, and now CEO of HYPRLABS Inc - a small team coding a clean AI architecture and launching a completely new robot this summer.
The whole industry is throwing tens of billions at problems HYPR is solving with a computer the size of your fist and a hot-glued camera."
