Tag: physical AI

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…

MirroS rewrites video frames into runnable physics code

MirroS turns real video into editable MuJoCo physics programs an agent can verify and re-run.

SoftBank puts $200M into AI brains for existing excavators

SoftBank led a $200M Series A for Gravis Robotics, the largest round in construction robotics, to retrofit excavators…

LG bets a bipedal robot on Nvidia’s GR00T foundation

LG will build its next bipedal humanoid on NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T foundation model, aiming for a 2027 debut.

Japan builds the world’s first national AI infrastructure with NVIDIA

A Vera Rubin AI factory with 27,500 GPUs will power Japan's physical AI ambitions across manufacturing and robotics.