Physical AI News
Latest Physical AI news and analysis — 288 articles tagged Physical AI on The Robotics Media.
- Renesas Opens Physical AI And Robotics Lab In Beijing, Targets 70% Humanoid BOM — — Renesas Electronics opened its Physical AI & Robotics Lab in Beijing on August 27, 2026, to demonstrate, validate and co-develop next-generation human...
- Ex-Meta Scientists' Perceptron Ships Isaac 0.5 and $21M Bessemer Round for Factory Vision AI — — Perceptron, founded by ex-Meta FAIR scientists Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, disclosed a $21M Bessemer-led round alongside Isaac 0.5, an op...
- John Deere Bets $10M on Reservoir Farms To Fast-Track Rugged AI in Agriculture — — John Deere and Reservoir signed a $10M three-year R&D deal to let agtech and rugged-AI startups validate on real specialty-crop farmland with growers,...
- FedEx Scales Dexterity Mech Robot Into Hagerstown Trailer Hub — — FedEx and Dexterity expanded their physical-AI deployment at the Hagerstown hub, scaling the Mech trailer-loading robot and Foresight world model beyo...
- NVIDIA Unleashes Cosmos World Foundation Models For Physical AI — — NVIDIA on August 27, 2026 released the next generation of its Cosmos world foundation models, plus Cosmos Reason 2 and two Omniverse-Cosmos blueprints...
- Anthropic Previews MHS Standard To Let Claude Agents Run Labs And Factories — — Anthropic and HHMI have previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a unified interface that lets Claude and other AI agents drive microscopes, robot arms...
- Figure Hits 1,000th Figure 03 Off The BotQ Line In California — — Figure AI has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid at the BotQ facility in California, sustaining approximately one robot per hour and cementin...
- BMW Turns On Physical AI In Europe With Hexagon's AEON Humanoid In Leipzig — — BMW Group has switched on its first European humanoid deployment at Plant Leipzig using Hexagon Robotics' AEON, and opened a Center of Competence for...
- Transfyr Launches With $25M Seed To Build A Physical AI Observability Layer For Science — — Transfyr, co-founded by ex-Ginkgo Bioworks AI lead Anna Marie Wagner and ARPA-H founding director Renee Wegrzyn, exited stealth with a $25M seed led b...
- Check-Cap Completes MBody AI Merger, Closes $10M Ordinary-Share Offering — — Check-Cap Ltd. (NASDAQ: MBAI) closed a $10 million public offering on August 27 after finalizing its business combination with MBody AI Corp., complet...
- Leapmotor Enters Humanoid Race, Stands Up Lingsheng Robotics Subsidiary — — Leapmotor's CFO Li Tengfei used the August 25 H1 earnings call to confirm a humanoid robotics push through newly registered Huzhou Lingsheng Precision...
- Pollen Robotics Opens $399 Microduck Preorders To Bring Reinforcement Learning Home — — Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics opens preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped that walks, roller-skates and lets makers tra...
- NVIDIA Debuts Jetson Orin Nano 2 With 2× Inference, Wing And Matic Adopt It First — — NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles the inference performance of the previous Orin Nano at 40% lower power, with Wing, Matic Robotics, Cognex and Doos...
- AWS And NVIDIA To Add 2 Million More GPUs, Bring Vera CPUs And Physical AI To The Cloud — — AWS and NVIDIA said they will deploy 2 million additional Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra GPUs across AWS in 2027-2028, bring Vera CPUs and NVL...
- UBTECH, Galbot, AGIBOT Lock In Factory Orders As VLA Models Reset China Humanoid Race — — As Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games ends, UBTECH, Galbot and AGIBOT hold hundred-million-dollar factory orders from BYD, Foxconn, CATL and...
- Mint, Yunji and Rice Robotics Sign Service Robot Development Deal — — Mint's Axonex subsidiary signed a customized development contract with Beijing Yunji Technology and Rice Robotics to co-build a next-generation commer...
- Muon Space Closes $250M Series C at $1.5B to Scale Satellite Foundry — — Muon Space raised a $250M Series C led by Eclipse with Google and Salesforce Ventures, reaching a $1.5B valuation to scale its Mission Foundry and con...
- Generalist AI Raises $200M In 8VC-Led Round, Weeks After Debuting Gen-1.5 — — Robotics AI startup Generalist AI has raised $200 million in a fresh round led by 8VC, coming roughly a week after unveiling its Gen-1.5 embodied foun...
- NEURA Robotics Buys ADLATUS To Bring Physical AI To Cleaning Robots — — NEURA Mobile Robots takes 100% of Ulm-based ADLATUS Robotics, adding hundreds of deployed cleaning robots to the Neuraverse Physical AI platform.
- Bedrock Robotics Deploys Fully Autonomous Excavators on U.S. Infrastructure Sites — — San Francisco startup Bedrock Robotics has moved retrofitted excavators to full autonomy on live U.S. jobsites for Sundt Construction, Champion Site P...