Physical AI News
Latest Physical AI news and analysis — 322 articles tagged Physical AI on The Robotics Media.
- Skild AI Hits $100M Revenue Run Rate 10 Months After First Deploy — — Pittsburgh's Skild AI reveals a $100M annual revenue run rate and unveils S1, a video-taught robot foundation model built on NVIDIA infrastructure, te...
- Maven Robotics Exits Stealth With $100M To Ship 250 Warehouse Bots — — Maven Robotics, founded by an ex-Apple special-projects engineer, exits stealth with a $100M Series A led by Nasdaq-listed BOT fund RoboStrategy to bu...
- NEURA Robotics Taps Italy’s SECO for European Compute Modules Behind 4NE1 Humanoid — — NEURA Robotics and SECO will co-design Qualcomm Dragonwing-based compute modules for the 4NE1 humanoid and open a NEURA Gym training hub in Italy.
- DMM.com Backs Algomatic Dynamics With ¥5B To Launch Japan's Physical AI Hand Platform — — Tokyo-based Algomatic Dynamics kicks off physical AI operations with a ¥5 billion (~$34M) first check from DMM.com, targeting a domestic release of it...
- Palladyne AI Teams With FANUC America To Push Physical AI Onto Factory Robots — — The new tie-up puts Palladyne IQ on top of FANUC America's industrial robot lineup, targeting manufacturing, warehousing and logistics customers with...
- DeepRobotics Open-Sources Its RL_Training Pipeline For Lite3, M20 And DR02 — — China's DEEP Robotics has released a complete IsaacLab-based reinforcement-learning training and deployment stack for its Lite3 and M20 quadrupeds and...
- Samsung SDS Backs Walden Robotics, The Toyota Research Institute Humanoid Spinoff — — Samsung SDS made a strategic June investment in Walden Robotics, a Toyota Research Institute spinoff now valued at $1.1B and building general-purpose...
- LG, Nota And Mobilint To Build Humanoid Robot On Korean-Made NPU — — Nota has been chosen as lead institution for a state-backed program to build an autonomous humanoid robot powered by a Korean-made NPU, alongside LG E...
- Norbert Health Raises $14M Series A To Turn Robots Into Autonomous Nurses — — Physical AI startup Norbert Health closes a $14M Series A led by Cardinal Group to scale its autonomous robotic nursing platform across US skilled nur...
- GPT-6 Astra Aces Robot Block-In-Bowl Task, Still Stalls On The Puzzle — — Y Combinator-backed Robocurve pitted OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra against Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on bimanual YAM arms and found Astra 2.4x more likely t...
- Sam Altman Confirms OpenAI Will Build Its Own Humanoid Robot — — OpenAI's CEO said the company will 'definitely do a humanoid' and thinks everyone should have a personal robot, ending months of speculation about the...
- SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6B, Well Below 1X's $10B Ask — — SoftBank is negotiating a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid startup 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, The Information reports.
- Caterpillar Teams With FieldAI To Bring Foundation-Model Autonomy To Jobsites — — Caterpillar is combining its operational data with FieldAI's robot foundation models and NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins to bring physical AI to constr...
- XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Walks Off Guangzhou Production Line — — XPENG commissioned its Guangzhou humanoid robot production line on September 8, with IRON autonomously walking off the line as the company reaffirmed...
- Lyte Raises $165M Series C At $1.6B Valuation To Give Robots Trustworthy Vision — — Physical AI startup Lyte closes a Maverick Silicon-led $165M Series C at a $1.6B valuation to scale its LyteVision perception platform for robots acro...
- Carbon Robotics Launches Autonomy Ready Program With Great Plains As First Partner At Farm Progress Show 2026 — — Carbon Robotics opened its autonomy platform to third-party implement makers with a new Carbon Autonomy Ready program, and Kubota-owned Great Plains M...
- NEURA Robotics Puts 4NE1 And Neuraverse Center Stage At IFA 2026 Berlin Keynote — — NEURA Robotics CEO David Reger used his September 5 IFA 2026 keynote to pitch a European physical-AI ecosystem built around the 4NE1 humanoid and the...
- XDOF In Talks For $1.2B Series B Led By 8VC Just Months After Stealth Exit — — XDOF is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at roughly a $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, less than three months after the robot teleoperation d...
- Hivebotics Raises $6M Series A To Scale Abluo Restroom-Cleaning Robot — — Singapore's Hivebotics raised $6 million in a Vertex-led Series A to move its Abluo restroom-cleaning robot from pilot deployments into volume product...
- OlloBot Debuts OlloNi SS1 Cyber Pet Companion Robot At IFA Berlin 2026 — — Hong Kong companion robot maker OlloBot debuted its OlloNi SS1 Cyber Pet at IFA Berlin 2026, pairing an EmpathCore emotional engine with a Memory Hear...