Nvidia has expanded its Halos safety platform to robotics, providing dedicated hardware and software guardrails for autonomous machines operating alongside humans. Early adopters including Agility Robotics and Boston Dyn...
Tesla's push to mass-produce Optimus V3 humanoid robots is running into trouble, including hand assemblies that must be built by hand, unreliable touch sensors, and AI that still needs task-specific programming in contro...
Coverage from the Actuate conference describes physical AI as being in its "GPT-2 era," constrained by a shortage of diverse, high-quality robot training data and unreliable end-to-end manipulation. Unitree's post-IPO va...
Encord, a data-tooling company, is manufacturing physical training data for robotics firms at a San Leandro warehouse, using egocentric camera headsets, leader-follower robotic arm rigs, and dense task annotation. In a t...
Robotic startup Proception has settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11 million in seed funding to advance its high-dexterity robotic hand technology. The company utilizes a sensor-laden glove to capture...
CES 2026 demonstrated a significant industry pivot from software-based AI (chatbots and image generators) to "physical AI" and robotics applications. Major demonstrations included Boston Dynamics' redesigned Atlas humano...
1X announced a strategic partnership with investor EQT to deploy up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots to EQT's portfolio companies between 2026 and 2030, focusing on manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. This marks a si...
OpenMind, a Silicon Valley startup founded by Stanford professor Jan Liphardt, is developing OM1, an open-source operating system for humanoid robots that aims to be the "Android of robotics." The company unveiled FABRIC...
Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to manufacture its next-generation AI6 chips at Samsung's Texas facility. The AI6 chip is designed as an all-in-one solution to power Tesla's Full Self-Driving system, O...
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics On-Device, a language model that can control robots locally without internet connectivity. The model can perform tasks like unzipping bags and folding clothes, and has been su...
