Physical AI AI News & Updates
Finnish Startup NestAI Raises €100M to Develop Physical AI for European Defense Applications
Finnish startup NestAI has secured €100 million in funding led by Finland's sovereign fund and Nokia to develop AI products for defense applications, including unmanned vehicles and autonomous operations. The company is...
Coco Robotics Establishes Physical AI Research Lab with UCLA Professor to Leverage Five Years of Delivery Robot Data
Coco Robotics, a last-mile delivery robot startup, has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab. The lab will leverage millions of miles of data collected by Coco's...
SoftBank Acquires ABB Robotics for $5.4B to Advance Physical AI and ASI Vision
SoftBank Group announced the acquisition of ABB Group's robotics business unit for $5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026. The acquisition is part of SoftBank's strategic focus on "physical A...
Alibaba Partners with Nvidia to Integrate Physical AI Development Tools into Cloud Platform
Alibaba has announced a partnership with Nvidia to integrate Physical AI software stack into its cloud platform, enabling development of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces through synthetic data generation....
Nvidia Launches Cosmos World Models and Infrastructure for Physical AI and Robotics Development
Nvidia unveiled new Cosmos world models including Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter vision language model designed for physical AI applications and robotics. The company also introduced neural reconstruction libraries...
Humanoid Robot Maker Apptronik Raises $350M with Google DeepMind Partnership
Apptronik, a University of Texas spinout developing humanoid robots, has secured a $350 million Series A round led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with participation from Google. The Austin-based company, which has ove...