Tag: physical AI
Eka Robotics reaches $1.45B on a gripper that learns by touch
An a16z-led $150M Series A backs a manipulation stack that adapts to unfamiliar objects without retraining.
Voxel51 rolls robot sensor data and labeling into one stack
Version 3.0 adds time-series multimodal support and an agent with more than 45 MCP tools, plus a free…
Google pitches one Gemini model for the whole robot stack
Gemini 4 Argon builds its own simulations, grades training video and writes control code, though the demos still…
Nvidia teaches video models physics through plain language
Researchers from Nvidia, MIT and Oxford built Physis-Lang, a framework that sharpens video world models by rewriting their…
NVIDIA teaches its robotics stack to take instructions from agents
The release adds agent-ready skills and ROS Lyrical support, alongside a pose library that runs up to 5.5…
Toyota weighs a 400,000 robot push worth $6.4B a year
The automaker told investors that wider automation could need 400,000 robots and about $6.4B a year starting in…
Robot arms rarely refuse in a new harm benchmark
Given instructions to cause harm with real hardware, three leading models almost never said no.
Vantora banks $100M to build AI ventures it never sells
The startup factory once called UP.Labs will now let corporate partners keep the companies it builds.
Pony.ai and GAC put a self-driving electric hauler into production
The fourth-generation Robotruck enters mass production this year with nine lidars and a sensor kit whose bill of…
NVIDIA open-sources OSMO to run robot pipelines from one file
NVIDIA has released a Kubernetes-native orchestrator that carries a robotics workflow from training cluster to factory floor.
JD Logistics plans three million robots to move China’s parcels
JD Logistics laid out a five-year plan to buy three million robots, a million autonomous vehicles and 100,000…
Skild AI hits $100M run rate with robots that learn
Skild's S1 model turns a single recorded demonstration into autonomous execution, and the company says deployments are already…